Panama’s President Mulino Is Right to Cooperate with the U.S.
Performative resistance to Trump might be gratifying, but it would undermine Panama’s most critical strategic interests, writes Mulino’s former deputy minister of foreign affairs.
A recent article published by Americas Quarterly argued that Panama should abandon its current posture of cooperation with the U.S. in response to growing pressure from President Trump regarding the Panama Canal. While concern for national sovereignty is understandable—and one that I have proudly shared and defended before the UN Security Council and in many capitals of the world for years—the path proposed, rooted in isolationism and reactive nationalism, is not only dangerous. It is strategically unsound. Panama’s sovereignty is not defended by retreating from the world,...
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