HONG KONG -- Marco Rubio's visit to Panama this weekend on his first foreign trip as U.S. secretary of state has brightened the spotlight on the strategic waterway that cuts across the Central American nation: the Panama Canal.
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The port of Cristobal in Colon, Panama. The Panama Ports Company, a unit of Hutchison Port Holdings -- part of Hong Kong's CK Hutchison conglomerate -- operates ports at both ends of the waterway: at Balboa on the Pacific and Cristobal on the Atlantic. © Reuters
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