Trump's Panama Canal threats are the latest in a long history of US interest and involvement in Panama. America invaded a few ...

About 5% of the world's maritime trade passes through the canal including nearly 40% of the United States ... among military officials and security officials, including in Panama at that point ...

Will President Donald Trump really seek to use U.S. military force to retake the Panama ... the United States and the newly formed Panamanian government signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, granting ...

PANAMA CITY — President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday denied a claim by the Trump administration that the Central American ...

Earlier this month, Trump wouldn’t rule out using military force to take it back. The United States built ... U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a ...

With few options and time running out, a deal may prove to be Panama's best defense. The cost of occupying the canal may make ...

Trump, re-upping a post-election promise, decried the US’s decision to give the Canal Zone back to ... refused to rule out military force. The US previously invaded Panama in 1989 to topple ...

(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) Earlier this month, Trump wouldn’t rule out using military force to take it back. The United States ... canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama ...

Panama has also experienced several US military interventions over the years ... even go inside,” said author Diaz-Espino of the Canal Zone. “They had everything. They had golf courses ...

In recent weeks, when he was president-elect, Donald Trump publicly said that Panama should ... threat of US military action to take back the canal. A war to secure the canal zone wouldn’t ...

The President accused China of “lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal.” The truth is more complicated.

Asked later Thursday about the conflicting statements, Rubio noted that the U.S. military is responsible for defending the canal ... installations. Panama has cooperated closely with the United ...