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 recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and ...

Panama's president has said his country has received the first U.S. flight carrying deportees from other nations as the Trump ...

The Trump administration is framing the President’s vow to take back the Panama Canal as an economic investment, not “imperialistic expansion." ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

In response to pressure from the Trump administration, Panama has withdrawn from China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Eric Olander, co-founder of the China-Global South Project, says the U.S. president ...

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

Panama has denied a claim by the U.S. State Department that American warships were granted free passage through the Panama Canal. President José Raúl Mulino strongly refuted the assertion, saying ...

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 ...

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 ...