“Marco Rubio’s weekend go to to Panama is ready to supply clues to a urgent query: whether or not the following 4 years of American coverage will extra intently resemble an imperial conquest or a hardball actual property negotiation,” Politico studies.
“On the bottom right here, members of the nation’s small political elite have been bracing for both: As tensions over the Panama Canal ratcheted up final month, Panama’s former president, Ernesto Pérez Balladares, sat in his workplace on the tenth ground of a financial institution constructing and contemplated the worst-case situation: an American invasion.”
