President Donald Trump has called for the US to retake control of the Panama Canal unless the cost of passage for naval and ...

The $23 billion deal, announced by Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings, transfers control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports to a consortium led by BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, and ...

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and phones, denying them access to legal services and ...

A boat transporting migrants departs the Caribbean coastal village of Miramar, Panama, for the Colombian border, Thursday, ...

Panama and China have hit back at American claims about Beijing's influence over the Panama Canal, saying they were "lies". US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants the US to regain ...

the canal and the Canal Zone belonged to the U.S. This was made possible by a barter deal: The U.S. supported Panama's bid for independence from Colombia and in return secured the Canal Zone – a ...

The United States built the canal, one of the engineering marvels of the day, after helping Panama achieve independence from Colombia. Roosevelt the nationalist envisioned the canal as an ...

In 1869, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had delivered the Suez Canal through Egypt, agreed to replicate the feat in 1881 in Panama (then a province of Colombia). But slashing through ...

Map locates Panama City, Panama, and the Darién Gap along the border of Panama and Colombia. Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank ...

Right?» For decades, the canal and the Canal Zone belonged to the U.S. This was made possible by a barter deal: The U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit and Panama's decision to drop out of China's Belt and Road Initiative reflect evolving US-Panama relations. Panama has agreed to curb China’s influence over the ...

In December 2024, the US president surprised many by expressing his desire to see his country take back the Panama Canal ... by crossing the Darién Gap from Colombia, hoping to enter the US ...