The Panama Canal, a 51-mile maritime shortcut linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is a crucial artery of global trade and a longstanding focal point of international geopolitics. Since its ...

Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the Pacific have become the ...

Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from West Palm Beach, Fla. President-elect Donald J.

It was a territory known to some who lived there as a tropical utopia. The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly 75 years. But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed treaties ...

As Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to Panama on his first official foreign trip, reassumption of American control over the Panama Canal Zone is on the agenda. With Panama refusing to back down, a ...

Brent is a Senior Research Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology in the Allison Center for National Security. As China prepares its response to U.S. efforts to regain control of the Panama ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s visit to Panama this week has Latin America experts speculating that President Donald Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal has waned — and shifted to a more ...