Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting Panama's president on his first stop on his trip foreign trip as President Donald Trump is upping pressure on America's neighbors including a demand for the Panama Canal to be returned to the United States.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, is received by Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martnez-Acha, center, and John Barrett, Charg d'affaires, at the Panama Pacific International Airport in Panama City, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. “We’re going to address that topic,” Rubio said a day earlier. “The president’s been pretty clear he wants to administer the canal again. Obviously, the Panamanians are not big fans of that idea. That message has been brought very clear.”
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