Maurice Hudson Thatcher is a gnarled, 92-year-old relic of Panama Canal construction days and still has a pioneer's proprietary interest in the Canal Zone, which Teddy Roosevelt leased from ...

Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the Pacific have ...

Today, Panama holds special strategic significance for China because of the canal, but Beijing has been working to expand its influence in Latin America, and among developing countries more broadly.

A contract to build a bridge over the canal, currently held by a Chinese firm, could be offered up. Finally, there is Panama’s huge copper mine, Cobre Panamá, which was shut down in November ...

Panama's president has denied claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that America is literally retaking the canal.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal, and he hopes U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ...

Panama's voters approved a 2006 referendum authorizing a major expansion of the canal to accommodate larger modern cargo ships. The expansion took until 2016 and cost more than $5.2 billion.

PANAMA CITY — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sought to reassure Panama that the United States recognizes its sovereignty over the national canal, amid President Donald Trump’s repeated ...

America’s Fraught, Sometimes Deadly, History With the Panama Canal Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition and violence ...