The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed ...

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Residents of Casco Viejo, a historic district located in the heart of Panama City rely heavily on tourism and services. Workers from the area share their thoughts on the country’s economy and how it ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama—When President Theodore Roosevelt formulated plans for the Panama Canal, there was no Panama. The country was still part of the Republic of Colombia despite bouts of on-again ...

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).

President Trump’s escalating rhetoric over the Panama Canal has transformed diplomatic tensions into a full-blown crisis. Trump’s assertion during his March 5 congressional address that “to ...

Panama was already working to address American interests before Mr Trump’s election. José Raúl Mulino, the president, had cracked down on migration through the Darién Gap, a stretch of dense ...

Washington relinquished control of the waterway to Panama on December 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. Trump has said that Carter "foolishly" gave the canal away.

Right now Marco Rubio has the easiest job in the world: President Trump is throwing his weight around in our hemisphere in a way we haven’t seen in a century, and it’s opening up doors.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio participates in a tour of Miraflores Locks in Panama City, Panama, Feb. 2, 2025. Second, since Panama assumed responsibility for operations on December 31, 1999 ...