From Greenland to Panama and Mexico, leaders are in shock
As Donald Trump eyes fine new pieces of real estate in the Americas and beyond
At Miraflores locks trains guide a ship through the water as a gaggle of tourists looks on. More than a century after American engineers completed the Panama Canal, and 25 years after the United States handed it over to Panama, Donald Trump, the president-elect, says he wants it back. The canal, he says, was a “gift” that should never have been given.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “The influence games”
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