Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter growing Chinese influence in Latin America.

President Trump's priorities of immigration enforcement and promoting U.S. interests in the Panama Canal lead the political agenda in Washington.

When I first travelled to Panama City in 2012, the big real estate story – in a town ... vowing in his inaugural address to “take back” the Panama Canal, “a foolish gift that should have never been made”. He alleges that “American ships are ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the ...

Traditionally, when US secretaries of state make their international debuts, they travel to major US allies and offer bromides about working together.

Panama’s revolution from Colombia established Panama as a separate and sovereign nation. This allowed for the prompt agreement between the U.S. and Panama for the construction of the Panama Canal. Much of the skulduggery and backroom actions by the U.

President Trump is reportedly dispatching his newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama for his first foreign trip. Here's what's at stake.

The Panama Canal’s future security may depend less on scrutinizing foreign presences and more on rekindling the kind of robust American partnership that made the Canal’s success possible in the

We bet the folks building the Panama Canal in this Feb. 1, 1911 photo assumed the name would stick, but that’s up for debate these days. Fun fact: the Panama Canal took about 10 years to build, four years less than Boston’s Big Dig. (AP Photo)

President Donald Trump cannot take the Panama Canal — at least not legally — as he would be violating every single treaty that the U.S. has come into with Panama since 1945, international law and national security experts told WLRN.

In the Panama City neighbourhood of El Chorrillo ... With US president Donald Trump threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal, residents who survived the battles 35 years ago are angry ...