Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is set to travel to Panama in the coming days to visit his Panamanian counterparts amid the Trump administration’s pursuit of “reclaiming” control of the Panama Canal.
Hegseth will participate in the 2025 Central American Security Conference, and he will meet with senior civilian, military, and security leaders to “strengthen our partnerships with Panama and other Central American nations toward our shared vision for a peaceful and secure western hemisphere,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said last Friday.
Parnell did not mention the canal specifically, but it’s an undertone of the trip, given the president’s determination that it’s in the United States’s interest to reclaim it.
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The U.S. built the canal to facilitate the transit of commercial and military vessels between the
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