As Washington threatens and Panama refusing to back down, a struggle to control this key trade, security and immigration ...

The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

Ahead of U.S. top diplomat Marco Rubio's visit to the country, US envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone put the onus on Panama to ...

The new US president has vowed to ‘take back’ the waterway, but there’s much more to this modern wonder than meets the eye ...

PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years ...

Republicans hoping to thwart Beijing’s influence in Latin America are urging the Panamanian government to cut ties with ...

The accusation takes place during the same week that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit the country in his ...

Now, 25 years later ... Members of the Canal Zone Roller-Skating Club in Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone, 1955.Credit: Getty Images, digitally tinted As part of a two-speed economy, other workers ...

The Canal Zone ceased to exist in 1979; after a period of joint control, Panama took over the canal in 1999. It is now operated by the government-owned Panama Canal Authority, which recently built a ...

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

which could allow the US to retake the canal zone by force. A cargo ship sails through the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon City, Panama, on Dec. 28, 2024 AFP via Getty Images The ...