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Panama President José Raúl Mulino says there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal. He also says that he hopes U.S.
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it wasn’t meant to be the US property/controlled forever anyway, part of the initial agreement was a “in perpetuity” ownership with added restrictions maxing out at 99 years. We are long past that point anyway as the ownership upper term was hit in 2013, but yes, the treaty is also a huge reason why as well.
Basically the only thing that the US was supposed to always have, was access to the canal.