Trump's inauguration and his Panama Canal, Gulf of Mexico remarks spark protests

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The inauguration of US President Donald Trump and his remarks on Panama Canal and Gulf of Mexico in his inauguration speech at the Capitol on Monday (Jan 20) sparked protests in several cities in the United States and in Mexico, Panama and Belgium.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00My solution, my solution, my solution.

00:06What is our solution?

00:08The nation sits on top of the world.

00:10We will build everywhere.

00:14We will build no bones in the earth.

00:16We will build everywhere.

00:18We will build, we will build, we will build.

00:21We will build, we will build, we will build.

00:26The people united will never be defeated.

00:31The people united will never be defeated.

00:35The people united will never be defeated.

00:51We will not allow Donald Trump

00:54that militarizes the border, because we are a free and sovereign country.

01:00He cannot come and intrude into our country or our border.

01:05I have a sign here where I put it clearly, no militarization, no militarization.

01:10And the one who changes the name to the Gulf is like a drug addict,

01:15because he cannot change the name to our Gulf.

01:19This issue of closing borders, I think,

01:23goes back tremendously to an evolution that was already coming.

01:28I think it is a very important attack on human rights,

01:32and that both the United States had been promoters of the fight

01:38against the defense of human rights,

01:41now it has come to break with this new Trump order.

01:49We do not accept under any criteria the Trump declaration.

02:00Neither Trump, nor the gringos, nor his army, nor his government have anything in Panama.

02:05What is in Panama is for the Panamanians.

02:07The canal is Panamanian, the sovereignty is Panamanian,

02:09the self-determination is Panamanian.

02:11They have nothing here.

02:12The intentions of the President of the United States

02:15is to intimidate the Panamanian people,

02:18to take the canal and put it as a platform of use

02:23different from its nature, such as traffic and peaceful transit

02:27of the ships of all the nations of the world.

02:38I'm concerned about a lot of things.

02:40Climate, but also human rights.

02:44I'm very afraid of big tech becoming very big

02:49in the US, but also in Europe.

02:51I just hope that the democratic structures in the United States

02:57will remain in place,

02:59although there is a chance that because Trump and his party

03:02have both executive, legislative and the justice departments together,

03:08it could lead to a real downturn

03:11and a real stride in authoritarianism.

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