In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

Panama rebuked a US claim of granting free passage for its government vessels through the Panama Canal, calling it baseless.

the US built a railway. In 1869, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had delivered the Suez Canal through Egypt, agreed to replicate the feat in 1881 in Panama (then a province of Colombia).

On the ground here, members of the country’s small political elite have been bracing for either: As tensions over the Panama Canal ratcheted ... to build a high-speed rail line from Panama ...

Donald Trump has long been fixated on the Panama Canal, a crucial shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He has railed against rising tolls on American ships (though the increases ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama ... months (though in the 1850s, a railway was built across the isthmus).

When US President Donald Trump threatened to "take back" the Panama Canal in his inauguration speech ... they were exposed more to rail-road accidents, they were more exposed to premature dynamite ...

Trump Is a Man With a Panama Canal Plan It should come as no surprise that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on his first official trip this weekend will be in Panama, a nation that ...

José Raúl Mulino is set to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday when the two will visit the Panama Canal. NBC Universal, Inc. Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland and retake control of the Panama Canal is driven by legitimate national security ...