President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country ...

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

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

The new Panamanian ambassador was given strict instructions as he prepared to meet then-President Donald Trump one day in ...

CK Hutchison Holdings, a company started by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, plays a big role in the Panama Canal.

A Panamanian national holiday remembering the killing of 21 protesters by police and U.S. troops in 1964 is taking on new ...

A Panamanian national holiday remembering the killing of 21 protesters by police and U.S. troops in 1964 is taking on new ...

Donald Trump’s acolytes in the House of Representatives are so jazzed about his forthcoming administration that they’re ...

New updates from January 7: Trump refuses to rule out force to take Greenland and Panama Canal; Meta ends fact-checking on facebook (opens in a new window) New updates from January 7: Trump refuses to ...

The first, called the Panama Canal Treaty, cancelled the Panama Canal Zone and turned the canal over to the Panamanians on December 31, 1999. Under the second, the Permanent Neutrality Treaty ...

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 ...