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Panama plans a $1.6B reservoir to combat canal droughts. President Mulino backs the Río Indio project despite protests from ...
The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed ...
In the 1940s and 1950s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the ...
Panama should allow ships wanting to transit the Panama Canal to skip the line if they pay in Bitcoin, says Panama City Mayor Mayer Mizrachi. Panama City Mayor Mayer Mizrachi has floated the idea ...
The US will deploy troops along the Panama Canal for training, exercises and "other activities" under a joint deal that stops short of allowing the US to build bases in Panama but is still a major ...
Panama and the U.S. signed a new security pact on the canal, boosting defense ties as tensions with China over Latin American influence continue to rise.
Panama says the U.S. government has recognized the country’s sovereignty over the Panama Canal, but it’s unclear if Washington fully agrees with that assertion. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...
During a visit to Panama on Tuesday (Apr 8), US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that America will not allow China and other nations to "threaten the canal's operation or integrity".
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged that the Trump administration would “take back” the Panama Canal from “China’s influence” on Tuesday during a visit to the key shipping lane.
There are one or two mistakes that far too many cruise passengers make when booking a cruise on the famed Panama Canal, says expert Gary Bembridge, who admits even he fell foul of them ...
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty with Panama to gradually transfer control of the 51-mile canal to the nation it bisects, and on Dec. 31, 1999, Panama assumed full control of the canal.
Trump’s assertion during his March 5 congressional address that “to further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we’ve already started ...