Panama City — The administrator of the Panama Canal said Friday that the vital waterway will remain in Panamanian hands and open to commerce from all countries, rejecting claims by President ...

Panama Canal Administrator Ricaurte Vásquez addresses President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that the U.S. should retake control of the Panama Canal during an interview with Associated Press ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The administrator of the Panama Canal said Friday that the vital waterway will remain in Panamanian hands and open to commerce from all countries, rejecting claims by ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent lament that the United States ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama under the Carter administration is both strategically sound and historically resonant.

He recently challenged the government of Panama over its sovereign control of the Panama Canal, potentially reopening one of the most divisive foreign policy issues of the 20th century.

In a December Truth Social missive, Trump accused Panama of “ripping off” the U.S. by charging "exorbitant" fees for ships traveling through the Canal. Later remarks in Phoenix saw the ...

The story so far: On December 22, 2024, Donald Trump threatened to take back the Panama canal, calling the transfer treaty “foolish”. He said, “Our Navy and Commerce have been treated in a ...

To return the canal to Panama, President Jimmy Carter worked to change minds and build a bipartisan coalition that put aside short-term political considerations. By Peter Baker Reporting from ...

On Dec. 21, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. In one post, which had ...

President-elect Trump has announced that he wants to take Greenland and the Panama Canal. That could usher in another era of nation-grabbing. The United States got out of that business long ago.

In such a negotiation, Mr. Trump has both carrots, including revenue sharing for canal fees and other incentives, and sticks in the form of tariffs and withdrawal from the Panama-U.S. Trade ...

Panama's top political leaders held a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the return of the Panama Canal after decades of US control on Tuesday, during which Panamanian President Jose Raul ...