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." ...

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

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by ...

Something very powerful is going to happen,” Trump warned from Washington, casting a shadow over Rubio’s diplomatic mission ...

Business groups, economists and even some Republicans cautioned that new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China could ...

President Donald Trump reiterated his vow to “take back” the Panama Canal on Sunday, warning of “powerful” US action in an ...

"All the while, the Chinese Communist Party uses diplomatic and economic leverage — such as at the Panama Canal — to oppose the U.S. and turn sovereign nations into vassal states.” ...

Rubio Visiting Central America With the Panama Canal and Immigration Top of Mind PANAMA CITY (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on his first foreign trip in office, arriving in Central ...

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 ...

When US President Donald Trump threatened to "take back" the Panama Canal in his inauguration speech last week, Panamanians were reminded of American imperialism of old. For most of the 20th ...