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 ...

Two Panamanian lawyers filed a complaint Monday to cancel the concession of a Hong Kong-based company for operating two ports ...

But the president said the consortium controlling them was being audited and that the canal authority would give Rubio a more detailed explanation.Mulino did say Panama would not be renewing its ...

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

On his first trip as secretary of state, Marco Rubio will also visit four other Latin American countries and press ...

For the best part of a century they carved out their own little piece of paradise in Central America, arriving from the United States to manage and operate and defend the Panama Canal. They lived ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Panama in his first international trip. Here’s what to know about the Panama Canal ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in 1999, as "a foolish gift that should have never been made". Trump also ...

When US President Donald Trump threatened to "take back" the Panama Canal in his inauguration speech last week, Panamanians were reminded of American imperialism of old. For most of the 20th ...

Rubio has built a detailed basis from which he will approach talks with its leaders in a bid to regain U.S. control of the canal. While Rubio said he views Panama as a generally pro-U.S. partner ...

Trump Is a Man With a Panama Canal Plan It should come as no surprise that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on his first official trip this weekend will be in Panama, a nation that ...