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The United States military teamed with Panamanian police to conduct a series of new exercises aimed at protecting the Panama Canal, amid tensions over alleged Chinese influence along the prized ...
A boy watches buses during a Red Devils tuning exhibition in La Chorrera, Panama, Sunday, June 30, 2024. The Red Devils are repurposed U.S. school buses once used in the Panama Canal Zone and ...
In Panama City in January, marchers mark Martyrs’ Day, a national day of mourning to honour Panamanians killed in 1964 anti-American riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone.
The Trump White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.
The President accused China of “lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal.” The truth is more complicated.
Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.
Panama’s control of the canal that bears its name should not be returned to the United States despite President Donald Trump’s calls of “we’re taking it back,” Panamanians say.
On Jan 9, 1964, students protested in the then-US controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama's flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to the ...
Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Trump’s comments on canal Earlier this month, Trump wouldn’t rule out using military force to take it back.
On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a ...
The new Panamanian ambassador was given strict instructions as he prepared to meet then-President Donald Trump one day in 2019: Do not engage him in any substantive discussion of critical issues.