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 ...

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

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

Panama last month celebrated the 110th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, which in its day was one of the most expensive and dangerous infrastructure endeavors ever undertaken.

U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed a phone call with Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino due to last-minute changes ...

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino said on Thursday the U.S. was spreading "lies and falsehoods" after the State Department ...

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

Trump held crunch talks with Canada's Justin Trudeau as the tariff war escalates. The political enemies also spoke over the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has met Panama's president on his first stop on his trip foreign trip as President Donald ...

Marco Rubio heads Saturday to Panama on his debut trip abroad as US secretary of state as he looks for how to follow up on President Donald Trump's extraordinary threat to seize the Panama Canal.

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 ...

Greene, the author of Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal, explained how dangerous the canal project was for non-American workers, who were forced to live separately ...