🇺🇸🇵🇦🚢 US Says Its Navy Ships Will Have Free Passage Through The Panama Canal After Marco Rubio's Visit

US Navy ships will go through the Panama Canal for free, an American official said following Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit to the Central American country during the weekend, Bloomberg reported. Panamanian authorities did not comment on the claim.

Panama's canal authority did say late Sunday that it will "optimize transit priority" of US Navy ships through the waterway. It is one of the concessions made by President Jose Raul Mulino following the visit from Rubio, who had warned of "consequences" if the country did not take actions regarding what the US has described as China's large influence over the canal.

While Trump made threats of taking control of the canal from the Panama Canal Authority, Mulino said Rubio made "no real threat of retaking the canal or the use of force."

The Panamanian government also said it will not renew a memorandum of understanding with China regarding its "Belt and Road Initiative," the country's project to finance infrastructure projects across several continents.

https://www.latintimes.com/us-says-its-navy-ships-will-have-free-passage-through-panama-canal-after-marco-rubios-visit-574420

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱❗️ | The Trump administration is preparing a massive military aid package for the State of Israel worth about $1 billion, which will include at least 4,700 2,000-pound bombs

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱❗️ | President Donald Trump will meet with Prime-Minister Netanyahu tomorrow reportedly to discuss annexing parts of the Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to the de jure territory of the State of Israel.

🇲🇽🔥📹 | Video shows Intense clashes between New Juarez Cartel (NCDJ) and MZ/MF Cartel in the remote mountainous areas of Chihuahua, Northern Mexico

🇲🇽📞🇺🇸 | Less than 24 hours after the announcement of tariffs by United States President Donald Trump on Mexico and Canada over the Fentanyl smuggling into US territory, leftist Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, despite announcing reciprocal tariffs, came to negotiations with the new American leader and accepted his terms

On Twitter/X, Ms. Sheinbaum announced:

We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached a series of agreements:

1. Mexico will reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard immediately, to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.

2. The United States is committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.

3. Our teams will begin working today on two fronts: security and trade.

4. Tariffs will be paused for one month from now.

🇺🇸🇲🇽✈️🗺 | In an unprecedented event, a United States Navy P-8 ISR aircraft was spotted conducting reconnaissance sorties over the Texas border with Tamulipas and Nuevo Leon, controlled currently by the Los Metros (faction of Gulf Cartel) and the Northeast Cartel

🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — URGENT: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality as well as violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States

💬 President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said.

“Mass migration is one of the great tragedies in the modern era,” Rubio said, speaking afterward in a nearby building. “It impacts countries throughout the world. We recognize that many of the people who seek mass migration are often victims and victimized along the way, and it’s not good for anyone.”

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🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — Nayib Bukele on 𝕏:

We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.

We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee.

The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.

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🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — 💥 The United States will support El Salvador in developing nuclear energy, confirmed President Nayib Bukele: "A new step toward energy independence."

Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) 🖇

🇨🇳❌🇺🇸❗️ | Communist China announces 15% retaliatory tariff on U.S. coal and LNG, as well as 10% tariff on crude oil and other US-made products, moments after Trump's new tariffs come into effect

🇷🇺🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 | Iranian Vice President of Strategic Affairs, Javad Zarif:

Russia under Putin was ready to ally with the United States against us

🔗 Xumas (@xumas_iq)

🇮🇷🕊🇺🇸 | Former Education Minister under now-Purged President Ahmadinejad & Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Haji Babaei, says:

We have no hostility towards the U.S., nor are we at war with them. We just want to live like everyone else.

Many Iranian officials are increasingly adopting a conciliatory tone towards the U.S.

🇮🇱📞🇺🇸 | 🇮🇱 Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, before leaving for Washington:

I’m leaving for a very important meeting with Donald Trump in Washington.

The fact that this would be President Trump’s first meeting with a foreign leader since his inauguration is telling.

I think it’s a testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance. It’s also a testimony to the strength of our personal friendship.

That friendship and that cooperation has already yielded important results for Israel and the Middle East, including the historic Abraham Accords that President Trump led and which brought four historic peace treaties between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

In this meeting we’ll deal with important issues, critical issues facing Israel and our region: victory over Hamas, achieving the release of all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terror axis in all its components—an axis that threatens the peace of Israel, the Middle East and the entire world.

The decisions we made in the war have already changed the face of the Middle East. Our decisions and the courage of our soldiers have redrawn the map. But I believe that working closely with President Trump, we can redraw it even further and for the better.

I believe that we can strengthen security, broaden the circle of peace and achieve a remarkable era of peace through strength.

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1885945916731056167