Tag: Marco Rubio

• Friday, February 7th 2025 - 09:25 UTC

  Panama drops the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, but also rejects free transit of US vessels through the Canal

  

  Panama’s President, José Raúl Mulino, announced on Thursday that the country will withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative, the ambitious Chinese project to fund infrastructure to improve connectivity and economic cooperation with other nations. At the same time US Secretary of State Marco Rubio clarified the claim that Panama “had decided to remove fees for US government vessels transiting the Panama Canal”

• Monday, February 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  Rubio tells Mulino US to take necessary measures to end China's control over Panama Canal

  

  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Sunday with Panamian President José Raúl Mulino, whom he told about the increasingly worrying control “control by the Chinese Communist Party” of the waterway linking the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. This situation is a threat to US interests, Rubio argued.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2025 - 08:36 UTC

  Trump's gov't supports Guyana's case regarding Essequibo dispute

  

  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Guyanese President Dr. Irfaan Ali held a telephone conversation earlier this week during which the new Republican administration of President Donald Trump ratified its steadfast support of Guyana’s territorial integrity “in the face of Nicolás Maduro and his cronies’ bellicose actions” regarding sovereignty over the Essequibo region, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce confirmed. They also reviewed the ongoing illegal migration crisis.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - 08:47 UTC

  Things back to normal but not for Colombians seeking a US visa

  

  The US State Department confirmed Monday that delays were still to be expected by Colombian nationals seeking a visa to travel to the United States after the incident between Presidents Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro over the weekend regarding two deportation flights.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - 07:32 UTC

  Like old friends, PM Starmer/Trump; and Lamy/Rubio agree to meet soon

  

  Communication between British PM Keir Starmer cabinet and US President Donald Trump team seem very fluid, speaking like lifelong friends and buddies. That was what occurred on Monday when PM Starmer spoke to President Trump and on Sunday with Foreign Secretary David Lamy and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In both cases the leaders agreed to meet soon.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 22:14 UTC

  Rubio ratifies US recognition of González Urrutia as Venezuela's true President

  

  Venezuelan opposition leaders were told by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the Donald Trump administration would hold Edmundo González Urrutia as the truthful President of Venezuela following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won based only on a declaration from the National Electoral Council (CNE) later upheld by the Supreme Court, both of which are under the control of the Chavista regime.

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  Florida Senators sponsor bill to resume cruise lines and ports operations

  

  Florida State lawmakers have teamed up to introduce a bill that would allow cruise lines and ports to resume operations.

• Thursday, February 16th 2017 - 11:54 UTC

  Trump calls for the immediate liberation of Venezuela's Leopoldo López

  

  US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Venezuela to free jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez “immediately,” posting a picture of himself and Vice President Mike Pence with Lopez's wife at the White House.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2016 - 04:47 UTC

  Republicans work out strategy to stop Trump in Ohio and Florida primaries

  

  Following on Donald Trump's sweeping win on “super-Tuesday” Republican strategists are planning support for Ohio governor John Kasich so he can take his state presidential primary on 15 March and similarly with hopeful Senator Marco Rubio in his home state of Florida.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 23:46 UTC

  Trump tsunami: Republican hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer to become Rubio's finance chairman

  

  Paul Singer, the influential hedge fund billionaire from New York who endorsed Marco Rubio in October, is set to be named as his national finance chairman according to various US press reports. Singer is well known in Argentina for bringing a lawsuit against the government in the holdouts dispute.