The Panama Canal, a 51-mile maritime shortcut linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is a crucial artery of global trade and a longstanding focal point of international geopolitics. Since its ...

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 become the ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Panama signaled a clear message: the U.S. is determined to reassert its influence in Latin America and the Caribbean amidst the People’s Republic of China’s ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Panama Canal faces ongoing threats from China but that together the United States and Panama will keep it secure. Hegseth’s remarks triggered a fiery ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s visit to Panama this week has Latin America experts speculating that President Donald Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal has waned — and shifted to a more ...

For over 40 years, Capt. Efraín Hallax, 73, has been steering vessels through the canal, and he has seen it all, from a dictator’s fall to the rise of U.S. interest in retaking the waterway. Capt.