Washington | US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to arrive in Panama with a lofty assignment: retake the Panama Canal, the US-built waterway that President Donald Trump laments should have never been relinquished to the Central American country 25 years ago.

The audacious demand, which Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino called “impossible” and regional leaders denounced as 19th-century-style imperialism, is widely seen as an opening negotiating position to secure lower fees for US goods passing through the canal or closer cooperation on migration.

Washington Post