Trump may want to turn back the clock on half a century of incompetent negotiation and poor deal-making, but legally, he has ...

Decades after the United States invaded Panama in 1989, Samuel Castañeda says the sounds and smells of that night – armored ...

The Panama Canal was built on the premise that it would cut the time needed to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific. So how ...

Panama and the U.S. signed a new security pact on the canal, boosting defense ties as tensions with China over Latin American ...

Without enough freshwater flowing in, the canal’s locks can’t raise and lower ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Droughts mean fewer ships per day, and that can quickly affect ...

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

Now, Panama and the U.S. aim to lock out foreign ... muscle and cash, eyes a canal free of China's shadow. Business watches closely as this artery, forged by history, faces a modern tug-of 380 ...

A gas cargo ship sails through the Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal in Panama City, on April 8, 2025. A gas cargo ship sails through the Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal in Panama City ...

Recent rains have led the Panama ... locks, while another seven will be admitted to the larger locks from 2016 a week later. “These measures allow the majority of vessels wishing to transit the ...

Perhaps the recent fuss over the Panama Canal will deliver one worthy result ... It’s an amazing structure of dams and locks that allows big ships to avoid long voyages around the tip of ...

Panama and the US appear to have agreed to let American warships use the Panama Canal, effectively for free. But beneath the agreement is an ongoing threat to Panamanian sovereignty over the use of ...