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 ...

The Panama Canal is back in the headlines after President Donald Trump raised political and security concerns over the future ...

The Panama Canal is back in the headlines after President Donald Trump raised political and security concerns over the future of the strategic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The ...

A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by ...

China lashed out at what it called U.S. “coercion” after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with Beijing ...

Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has walked back the assertion of the State Department that Panama “has agreed to no longer ...

The US State Department posted a message on X claiming that ‘US government vessels can transit the Panama Canal without charge fees’.

President José Raúl Mulino said he can neither set the fees to transit the canal nor exempt anyone from them and that he was ...

President Trump is wrong when he says China controls the Panama Canal. But the U.S. rival does have influence there, and the ...