Under pressure from Washington and unfounded accusations, Panama cedes ground to the United States and breaks key agreements with China, marking a geopolitical shift in the control of the interoceanic canal.

Today, when we see a U.S. flag and hear the name 'Trump,' our mind immediately associates them, in semiotic terms, with the idea of imperialism in full force.

The return of the canal not only responded to anti-imperialist pressures, but also to a reconfiguration of power driven by U.S. business elites, who considered the occupation an obstacle to the transnational expansion of their companies and banks.

Analysis L21 | The expansion of Chinese operations on critical infrastructure in the Canal nation. China and the Panama Canal.

Panama is one of the weakest links in the increasingly contested globalization chain that MAGA is now directly threatening to achieve its objectives.

Thirty-five years later, the promise of liberal democracy to achieve greater progress and welfare contrasts with the general problems of Panama City.