Trump’s threat occurs as Panama became an elected member of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term in ...

All three, Trump, Mckinley and Roosevelt, stand out for advancing US interests aggressively. But McKinley appears to have ...

Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to ...

The Trump administration threatening partners in the Americas may prove to be short-term tactical approach but it will not ...

Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that ...

Panama’s president has said that he instructed the country’s foreign minister to not discuss the U.S. government’s ...

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 Panama Canal crisis isn’t over yet, and it may be only the first stage of a wider conflict about whether the U.S. can contain China’s control of the world’s commercial maritime logistics network.

The Panama Canal is one of several territories that US President Donald Trump says he wants the US to take control of, amid concerns about China's influence over the waterway. What worries the US ...

Donald Trump’s threat to take back control of the Panama Canal harks back to decades of US intervention in Latin America.

A team from NPR's All Things Considered went to Panama to report on the canal there, which has gained attention in recent months due to President Trump's comments about the U.S. taking control of it.

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