President Trump says the canal authority is overcharging. Recent increases are attributed in part to drought, maintenance ...

Matthew Parker, author of “Hell’s Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal,” told the BBC that about 25,000 people died, many from mosquito-borne viruses, in the failed French attempt ...

An effort to establish a canal through Panama began with the French in 1880, but financial troubles made the initiative fail after nearly nine years of little progress, according to the Embassy of ...

Panama City, Panama (CNN) — 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 ...

At a gathering for the conservative Turning Point USA organization on Dec. 22, Trump proclaimed, “We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else.” ...

LONDON — The Panama Canal will remain Panamanian, the secretary general of the United Nation’s maritime body told AFP on Tuesday, after Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to ...

The US is the biggest user of the Canal, but influence on its operations is dispersed among contracts with bidders internationally. All of the Panama Canal expansion activity in the early 2000s almost ...

Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio insisted there are serious concerns over control of the Panama Canal as President-elect Trump has called for the U.S. to take over the crucial waterway.

During the 2024 campaign at his many rallies, Donald Trump almost always mentioned the United States’ construction of the Panama Canal as evidence of the past U.S. greatness. President-elect Trump’s ...

Chinese soldiers do not operate the Panama Canal. And the Panama government is not ripping off the consumers of the United States through inflated shipping rates. That’s the only possible conclusion ...