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 ...

Panama is in danger of becoming a case study of how an American hard-power win could become a soft-power loss. America did ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

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.

He literally opened the floodgates and gave strategic assets throughout the Canal Zone to China,” said Mauricio Claver-Carone, the US special envoy for Latin America. He charged that Panama unfairly ...

China's presence around the Panama Canal is a national security concern that ... "This increasingly creeping presence of Chinese companies and actors throughout the Canal Zone, in everything from ...

Trump used his inaugural address to proclaim his intent to "take back" the Panama Canal, and in a call with ... Digital covering Politics, U.S. and World news. Fox News' Antisemitism Exposed ...

WASHINGTON - China's presence around the Panama Canal is a national security ... of Chinese companies and actors throughout the Canal Zone, in everything from ports and logistics to ...

Asked on 7 January whether he could assure the world he would not ... Panamanians were removed from the Canal Zone, which had been the most populous part of Panama, in part to make conditions ...

For most of the 20th century, Panama was physically severed in two by the US-controlled Canal Zone, which ran through ... The canal handles about 5% of the world's maritime trade and the US ...