The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

In recent weeks, when he was President-elect Donald Trump publicly said that Panama should return the Panama Canal to the ...

Marco Rubio will travel to Panama on his first trip abroad as secretary of State. The visit comes as Donald Trump looks to reclaim Panama's canal.

Republicans hoping to thwart Beijing’s influence in Latin America are urging the Panamanian government to cut ties with ...

Carter viewed the Panama Canal transfer as a defining moment of his presidency, while Donald Trump recently reignited debate, ...

During Monday’s inauguration, Donald Trump repeated his threat to retake the Panama Canal. The United States controlled the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding ...

The Panama Canal Authority leader denied that China controls the waterway, warning President-elect Trump against ending the ...

President Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition ...

President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 ...

There were many reasons that Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980. The Panama Canal Treaty wasn’t among them.