Panama President José Raúl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal for free ...

Part of his justification for American ownership of the Panama Canal is that the U.S. “spent more money than ever spent on a ...

The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a century, connecting two oceans. The things Americans ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a stern warning to Panama, accusing it of violating the 1999 Panama Canal treaty. In a ...

President Donald Trump is taking an unorthodox path to shake up Washington and change federal policy to his priorities.

Centuries later, it was navigable only by mule and canoe until, in the mid-1800s, the US built a railway. In 1869, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had delivered the Suez Canal through Egypt, ...

in the mid-1800s, the US built a railway. In 1869, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had delivered the Suez Canal through Egypt, agreed to replicate the feat in 1881 in Panama (then a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rubio has to balance aggressive Trump policies with Latin America's willingness to cooperate. The Panama Canal will be contentious.

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 ...