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 ...

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

Panama's decision to leave a key investment deal with China has drawn accusations from Beijing of "pressure and coercion" by ...

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

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 ...

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 (Reuters) -China's presence around the Panama Canal is a national security concern that Panama's government has to deal with, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. special envoy for Latin ...

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 ...