PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years of American policy will more closely resemble an imperial conquest or a ...

President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist ...

The aggressive rhetoric of US President Donald Trump has shocked Panamanians, who see the waterway as a source of enormous ...

Panama took full control of the canal in 1999, which it operates through the Panama Canal Authority (PCA). In December, Mr ...

Panama City, Panama (CNN) — The new Panamanian ambassador was ... during a press conference last week where he repeatedly ...

The new US president has vowed to ‘take back’ the waterway, but there’s much more to this modern wonder than meets the eye ...

PANAMA CITY — A Panamanian national holiday ... signing of an agreement more than a decade later by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to turn over control of the canal to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999.

"Giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a big reason why Jimmy Carter lost the election, even more so than the hostages," Trump said.

President-elect Donald Trump is so committed to acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal that he'd be willing to use military coercion to get them. The remains of President Jimmy Carter lie in ...

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy ... Carter’s approach to American foreign policy based on rights and justice also informed his decision to return the Panama Canal ...

“I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death,” he added, even though he had first mentioned it unprompted. This story has been updated to correct the last ...