Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio embarks soon on his inaugural trip as the United States’ top diplomat. His first stop, Panama ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday denied the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal for free. Mulino said ...

Panama’s president has said that he instructed the country’s foreign minister to not discuss the U.S. government’s ...

About 5% of the world's maritime trade passes through the canal including nearly 40% of the United States' container ... to build and administer the Panama Canal Zone. Tensions between Panama ...

Rubio told Mulino that Trump believed that China’s presence in the canal area may violate a treaty that led the United States to turn the waterway over to Panama in 1999. That treaty calls for the ...

A House GOP leadership memo obtained by Fox News Digital appears to encourage Republican lawmakers to back President Donald ...

Ahead of U.S. top diplomat Marco Rubio's visit to the country, US envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone put the onus on Panama to ...

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

“The United States has a treaty obligation to protect the Panama Canal if it comes under attack ... we would have to pay fees to transit a zone that we are obligated to protect in a time ...