🇺🇸⚡️- Elon Musk asks Jeffrey Epstein 'which day/night would be the wildest party on our island.'

🇺🇸 🇵🇦 🇨🇳 Marco Rubio on X:

The United States is encouraged by the recent Panamanian Supreme Court’s decision to rule port concessions to China unconstitutional.

📎 Secretary Marco Rubio

⚖️ 🇵🇦 🇭🇰 Panama supreme court cancels Hong Kong company’s canal contracts

Panama’s president says strategic waterway will operate as normal after ruling that advances US policy aims

The court’s decision on Thursday, which helps US attempts to block any Chinese influence over the strategic waterway, immediately drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing.

José Raúl Mulino, Panama’s president, said on Friday that until the court’s ruling was executed maritime officials would work with Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison, to ensure continuing operations.

The Trump administration made blocking China’s influence over the canal one of its priorities in the hemisphere. Panama was Marco Rubio’s first overseas stop as US secretary of state.

Despite the insistence by Panama’s government and the canal authority that China had no influence, Rubio made clear that Washington viewed the operation of the ports as a national security issue. Donald Trump, the US president, has said Panama should return the canal to US control.

The court’s brief statement gave no guidance on what would happen to the ports next, or any timescale.

The Hong Kong government firmly rejected the ruling, saying it strongly opposed any foreign government using coercive, repressive or other unreasonable means to seriously harm the business interests of Hong Kong enterprises. It said the Panamanian government should respect the spirit of contracts and provide a fair business environment.

“Given the current situation in Panama, Hong Kong enterprises should carefully review their existing and future investments there,” it said.

In Beijing, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Guo Jiakun, told reporters that China would take all necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of “the Chinese company”, without elaborating on the potential steps.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/30/court-ends-hong-kong-china-panama-canal-contracts

⚠️🇻🇪 Delcy Rodríguez announces a general amnesty for political prisoners in Venezuela.

The law will be sent to the National Assembly and aims to “promote coexistence” and close judicial cases related to political detentions.

The measure could benefit hundreds of people still detained and extend the releases initiated after January 3rd.

Rodríguez reported that the amnesty will exclude crimes such as homicide, drug trafficking, and ordinary crimes

⚠️🇻🇪🇺🇸 It's Official: Delcy Rodríguez signed a law that allows the privatization of the country's oil sector.