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 ...

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to the Panamanian government-threatening to retake the canal, by force if ...

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?

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

One of the U.S. Navy's eleven aircraft carriers collided with a Panama-flagged merchant ship Wednesday off the Egypt coast near the Suez Canal.

Thanks to deregulatory, laissez faire maritime policy, the U.S. has abandoned the oceans, allowing China and foreign shipping ...

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 ...

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

The Trump administration needs to figure out the proper balance between coercion and diplomacy, and how it affects ...

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

President Trump signed a proclamation renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America aboard Air Force One, as it flew ...