PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -The United States will "take back" the Panama Canal from Chinese influence, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday during a visit to the Central American nation.

The Panama Canal is planning to build new container ship terminals at either end of the vital waterway. The canal’s governing ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Communities in Panama that would have to relocate under the Panama Canal's plan to build a $1.6 billion reservoir filed a Supreme Court challenge on Thursday, saying the project ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio participates in a tour of Miraflores Locks in Panama City, Panama, Feb. 2, 2025. Second, since Panama assumed responsibility for operations on December 31, 1999, ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -The Panama Canal said on Thursday that lawmakers in the Central American nation had approved the proposed budget for the key global freight channel for the 2025/26 fiscal year, ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday that someone at the U.S. Embassy has been threatening to cancel the visas of ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The Panama Canal has begun a competitive process to select the company that will design, build and operate a pipeline to transport liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), its authority ...

MEXICO CITY — President Trump said Monday that the United States would reassert control over the Panama Canal, the strategic, U.S.-built waterway that Washington handed over to the Panamanian ...

Will Freeman, fellow for Latin America studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss President Donald Trump’s calls for the United States to retake control of the Panama Canal. Welcome to ...

The cargo ship Cosco Houston tests a new set of locks at the Panama Canal as part of a canal expansion project, in June 2016. Carlos Jasso/Reuters Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal ...