The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

The Panama Canal Authority on Wednesday denied the U.S. State Department's claim that U.S. government vessels would be able ...

Panama’s President Raúl Mulino criticized as an “intolerable” falsehood the US State Department’s claim that the Central ...

And how did it secure the rights? Partly by gunboat diplomacy. The US government bought the French canal concession, but Panama was then a province of Colombia, and the US could not reach terms ...

Panama's president says the State Department's claim of an agreement granting U.S. warships free canal passage was "based on ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has demanded that Panama make "immediate changes" to what he calls the "influence and ...

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 4 2025 (IPS) - US President Donald Trump’s ominous threat to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland sets the stage ... the world body does not have the means to enforce its own ...

About 5% of the world's maritime trade passes through the canal including nearly 40% of the United States ... Panama in the 1500-1600s. A treaty allowed U.S. passage rights and an overland trail ...

A fake quote attributed to Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino, saying that his country would double the tariffs for U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China's presence around the Panama ... Canal Zone, in everything from ports and logistics to telecommunications infrastructure and otherwise, which is very concerning, not only ...

The authorities could allow the country’s currency, the peso, to weaken against the dollar, effectively making its exports ...