When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Central America for his first trip as the top US diplomat. Rubio is expected to depart late next week for Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.
If the law were properly applied, the election would be annulled, and Arévalo and his vice president would have to leave office.
The US has begun deporting migrants to Guatemala, with two military planes carrying 80 Guatemalans arriving Friday in the Central American country. The move marks the start of President Donald Trump administration’s massive operation to deport migrants.
Rubio's stop in Panama also comes as Trump in recent weeks has said he wants the Panama Canal back under U.S. control, claiming that “American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will likely travel to Central America in the first week of February, a source familiar with the planning said.
Traditionally, when US secretaries of state make their international debuts, they travel to major US allies and offer bromides about working together.
Panama’s president ahead of Rubio’s visit
Marco Rubio To Visit Panama On First Trip As Secretary Of State
US Secretary Rubio to Visit Panama Amid Canal Tensions
Panama’s president ahead of Rubio’s visit: ‘I cannot negotiate’ on the canal
Panama President José Raúl Mulino has a message for Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of his impending diplomatic visit: The Panama Canal is not up for discussion. “It’s impossible,” Munilo said in Spanish at a press conference in Panama City on Thursday.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit Panama — the country whose canal President Donald Trump has suggested he’d seize — as early as next week, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the plan.
Mr Rubio will visit Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Rubio will depart on his first foreign trip to visit countries in Central America that may be vital for carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportation plans.
Three soldiers on a Black Hawk and all 64 people aboard an airliner are feared dead after the UH-60 and an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided, then crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport,
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