Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first overseas trip will be to Central America next week, including a stop in Panama, carrying weight behind President Donald Trump’s push for the U.S. to retake control of the Panama Canal.

Rubio also will visit Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic, multiple media outlets reported Thursday.

Trump accused Panama of breaking promises it made for the final transfer of the strategic waterway in 1999, 22 years after a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, and ceding operations to China.

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