US President-elect Donald Trump criticized the fees for using the Panama Canal, a crucial shipping route, on Saturday night, insisting that the costs be reduced or Panama should return the canal to the United States.
“Our Navy and Commerce have been treated in a very unfair and injudicious way. The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous,” he said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
The United States largely built the Panama Canal and administered its territory for decades before…