In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

Trump believes that America’s greatness depends on hegemony and expansionism. Nothing could be further from the truth. True greatness comes from standing with the people, serving their interests, and ...

Panama is in danger of becoming a case study of how an American hard-power win could become a soft-power loss. America did ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

Asked on 7 January whether he could assure the world he would not use military or other coercion to gain control of the Panama Canal or Greenland, Trump said: "No, I can't assure you on either of ...

Retake the Panama Canal, the U.S.-built waterway that President Donald Trump laments should have never been relinquished to the Central American country 25 years ago. The audacious demand ...

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has made clear he is manifestly determined to make America even more dominant in the Western Hemisphere.

WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - China's presence around the Panama Canal is a national security ... the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — 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 ...