The canal’s two biggest ports are operated by a Hong Kong company with global reach. The Trump administration sees a Chinese ...

Trump's threat to take back the Panama Canal signals a new era of U.S. expansionism and the greatest attack on Central American sovereignty since the 1990s.

As Washington threatens and Panama refusing to back down, a struggle to control this key trade, security and immigration ...

PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years ...

He has repeatedly stated his intention to reclaim control over the century-old waterway ... Francisco to New York City would be at least 11 days if the ship used the Panama Canal.

traveling to the Central American country and touring the Panama Canal on his first foreign trip as top U.S. diplomat, held face-to-face talks with Mulino, who has resisted pressure from the new U ...

But Mr Rubio was said to have had a firmer message in private, telling Panama that Mr Trump had determined the country had violated terms of the treaty that handed over the canal at the end of 1999.

On his first trip overseas as the top US diplomat, Rubio took a guided tour of the canal ... Panama offers cooperation - ...

Some U.S. lawmakers and officials are touting a nearly half-century-old treaty between the United States and Panama to justify the Trump administration's threat to reclaim the Panama Canal ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday threatened action against Panama ... canal but Trump said the step was not enough. Mulino, who until Trump’s criticism was widely regarded as a staunch US ...