Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter ...

A military operation against a tiny neighbor would destroy US credibility in Latin America and provide a boost for China and ...

The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

Often called one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Panama Canal splits the continents of North and South America ...

President Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition ...

Roughly 5% of all global trade flows through the canal’s 50-mile (80-kilometer) stretch each year, with the largest chunk ...

"I've been told that for a long time, long before ... The Panama Canal is a waterway that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It acts as a shortcut route, saving time and costs ...

Those remarks include his suggestion on Dec. 22 that the U.S. could take back ... Mulino say Panama would double fees on the U.S. The fees and tariffs paid for ships crossing the canal can vary ...

In the final weeks before Donald Trump returns ... Trump has repeatedly pushed the idea that he will take over Greenland from Denmark, reclaim the Panama Canal after the United States returned ...

Impact Link Giving US ships ... take control of Greenland, which he said the US needed for "national security purposes." The 51-mile Panama Canal was officially opened in 1914, creating a new ...

President-elect Donald Trump said at a conservative conference in Phoenix that the 50-mile Panama Canal should be returned to the U.S., a demand which Panama’s president rejected as not negotiable.