Socialist Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva welcomed his Panamanian counterpart José Raúl Mulino on Thursday to sign several bilateral agreement and support Panama’s control of the Panama Canal.
Lula announced that Brazil would sign onto the 1977 Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal, joining another 140 countries — a loaded move following comments by President Donald Trump suggesting that Panama should restore the canal to American control. The Trump administration has repeatedly protested that the Panamanian government has allowed communist China too much influence in the operation of the…
Read the full article at BREITBART.COM
