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 ...

“A man, a plan, a canal — Panama,” so the famous palindrome goes. Just a quick history review. The U.S. took over canal construction from the French in 1904, completing it in 1914 for $375 ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio went on Fox last week to cite a “Hong Kong shipping vessel” in the Panama Canal as evidence that China is exercising “effective control” of the waterway.

Something very powerful is going to happen,” Trump warned from Washington, casting a shadow over Rubio’s diplomatic mission ...

Panama's president says the State Department's claim of an agreement granting U.S. warships free canal passage was "based on ...

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 ...

What’s With Trump and the Panama Canal ... Holdings also has operated two ports on the canal since 1997 – one on the Atlantic side and one on the Pacific side. However, access to the canal ...

The State Department claimed it had struck a deal that would save the U.S. government “millions of dollars a year.” ...

"Currently, the cooperation between China and Panama under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative is proceeding ...