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PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to take back the waterway for the same republic. President-elect is decrying increased fees Panama has imposed to use the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He says if things don’t change after he takes office next month, “We will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and without question.”

Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his new admin could try to regain control of Panama Canal that US “foolishly” ceded to its Central American ally, contending shippers are charged “ridiculous” fees to pass through vital transportation channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He long threatened allies with punitive action in hopes of winning concessions, experts in both countries are clear: Unless he goes to war on Panama, Trump can’t reassert control over a canal U.S. agreed to cede in the 1970s.

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