Trump's threats to retake Panama Canal rejected

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Popular organizations today rejected the statements made by the new President of the United States, Donald Trump, who, during the ceremonial acts of his inauguration, reiterated his threats to retake the Panama Canal. teleSUR

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00:00And social movements and trade unions in Panama have expressed their willingness to resist

00:05U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to the nation's sovereignty.

00:08The group is led by the organizations that make up the United People Alliance, who reject

00:12Trump's declarations on the Panama Canal.

00:14The U.S. President assured that the tariffs charged on the Panama Canal to U.S. ships

00:18are too high, and that if they are not lowered, he will demand that the canal be handed over

00:23to the U.S. quickly and without questions asked.

00:26On the other hand, the National Union of Workers of Construction and Similar Industries,

00:30SunTracks, said that the sovereignty of the Panamanian people is intact.

00:47He says he has presented a law that could allow them to get the canal by paying one

00:51dollar or more, and we have to say it loud and clear to the person who today, as of today,

00:57will live in this house, who is the ambassador appointed by this Donald Trump.

01:02And we want to make it clear to him that we, Panamanians, are up in arms to defend our

01:07nation, to defend our self-determination, to defend what is ours and we will not cede

01:12or sell it to anyone, neither to the gringos nor to any other power that may have the same

01:16objectives they have.

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