Panama Canal Ship Pilot Navigates Tricky Waters, and Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The canal is narrow and crowded, and job No. 1 for the pilots is using their expert local knowledge to make sure the ships they are helming don't hit the sides, or another vessel.
49% : During the final days of the dictatorship of Gen. Manuel Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989, Captain Hallax one day on his way to work saw "a bunch of policemen beat up women indiscriminately." A few hours later, as he piloted a Turkish boat through the Pedro Miguel locks, "tears rolling down my face from rage," he dropped the ship's anchor at the narrow entry to Gatun Lake and took to the ship's radio to announce his protest against Noriega.
45% : On this night in February, Captain Hallax reported for work a half-hour before midnight -- and just a few hours after President Trump had canceled a call with President José Raúl Mulino of Panama to continue their negotiations over the future of the canal, which the U.S. president wants returned to American control.

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