The Panama Canal is and will continue to be Panamanian. This was underlined by the President of the Republic of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, speaking yesterday at the World Economic Forum underway in Davos, responding to the repeated statements by the new US President Donald Trump according to in which the United States will regain control of the Panama Canal. Mulino specified that the canal is Panamanian and "recognized both by international law and by nations of the world, and ratified in a treaty with the United States, contrary to what was recently stated by the new president of that country, Donald Trump." Specifying that Panama is a An ally and friend of the United States and its partner commercial activity, Mulino pointed out that the relations between the two nations must be geared towards achieving based on common interests and not on impracticable legal cases: "It is not possible - noted the Panamanian president - ignoring international law to impose criteria in an era very far from that of Teddy Roosevelt. So, I think that should not worry me since from a strictly legal is absolutely impossible".

If Mulino has closed the door to Trump's ambitions to regain possession of the canal, the Panamanian president has left open glimmers of interest that Panama can share with the new federal administration in Washington, starting from the control of migration flows to the United States: this, he said, is of interest to the United States and has added - "I have said on several occasions that the border The southern United States begins in Panama, not Mexico, Because we have a problem there, and obviously no one of them those illegal immigrants aspire to stay in Panama, nor in Costa Rica or Nicaragua. They aspire to remain in the States United with the means by which they get there."

Mulino highlighted that Panama, due to its exceptional strategic position, it has relations with a multitude of nations and - implicitly referring to the concerns of the manifested by the new American government due to the growing presence of interests of China in Panama, Mulino said that for Panama and his channel "the United States is the first customer, China the second; followed by Japan and three important countries Latin Americans who depend on our route for the most part part of their exports".

Donald is expected to speak in Davos this afternoon Trump who just three days ago, in his inaugural speech, dwelled again on the question of the Panama Canal: "the President McKinley - said the new American president - has made our country very rich through rates and talent - it was a innate businessman - and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things it has done, including the Panama Canal which - has Trump added - it was stupidly given to the nation of Panama after the United States – the United States I mean, Think about it – they've spent more money than they've ever spent previously spent on a project and lost 38,000 lives in the construction of the Panama Canal. We were treated a lot bad for this stupid gift that - Trump said - does not should never have been done, and the promises of Panama in our comparisons have been disregarded. The purpose of our agreement is to The spirit of our treaty have been totally violated. The ships have been subjected to absolutely excessive tariffs and they have not been treated fairly in any shape or manner. And this includes the US Navy. And, more than anything else," he concluded China is managing the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama and we are taking it back."

If the wave of populism that blows in many regions of the world should it be further accentuated, who knows that in the near future someone does not want to regain possession of the Suez Canal by stealing it to the Egyptians to hand it over, perhaps, to the French or the English or, why not, to Italians in consideration of their birthplace in Fiera di Primiero of the canal designer. Or perhaps to the Austrians, given Luigi Negrelli's Austrian citizenship?