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 ...

One of the U.S. Navy's eleven aircraft carriers collided with a Panama-flagged merchant ship Wednesday off the Egypt coast near the Suez Canal.

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

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

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

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 ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino rejected negotiations over ownership of the Panama Canal, in the face of President Trump’s fixation on the U.S. retaking the trade waterway. Mulino’s remarks come ...

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 ...