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 how does that ripple out to the global economy?

Readers are not all happy about the election funding reforms which advantage the ALP and the Coalition over independents.

Since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, he has called for Canada to become the 51st US state, suggested that the US ...

A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by tugboats stern and aft, and sweating Panamanians ...

The president claims Chinese soldiers are working in the canal. That’s nonsense.

Far too many words have already been expended on treating Trump’s so-called Gaza as something that might actually be ...

The Chinese Communist Party, essentially a criminal organization, invests an entire supply chain into shipping opioid ...

During Marco Rubio's first overseas visit as US secretary of state, he tried hard to use the Panama Canal as a pretext to pressure Panama into distancing itself from China. His blatant coercion and ...

President Trump is wrong when he says China controls the Panama Canal. But the U.S. rival does have influence there, and the ...

President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...

The United States stands at a pivotal crossroads in Latin America, where rising challenges demand bold, decisive action.