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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has slammed Donald Trump’s proposal to retake the Panama Canal.
Petro, a former Marxist guerilla and vocal supporter of Joe Biden, wrote in a post on the X platform that the number of illegal migrants crossing heading to the southern border would increase by “millions” unless Trump recognized the canal belongs to Panama.
Panama and Colombia share a dangerous and uninhabited border known as the Darien Gap. Millions of migrants, particularly from Colombia and Venezuela, have used the Darien Gap to travel north through Central America and then enter the United States illegally.
The Panama Canal was constructed by the U.S. in 1914 and remained under its control until 1999 after former President Jimmy Carter agreed a deal in which it would be handed over to Panama.
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