When American officials state one version of reality while Panamanian officials assert another, international audiences ...

Trump may want to turn back the clock on half a century of incompetent negotiation and poor deal-making, but legally, he has ...

Washington turned control over to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. Trump has claimed that Carter “foolishly” gave the canal away.

Martinelli is a businessman and supermarket magnate who governed Panama from 2009 to 2014. In 2023, he won his party’s nomination to seek the presidency again. However, he was convicted of money ...

It said that within the canal’s framework, “the Republic of Panama and the United States of America will work, as established, on a mechanism to compensate for the payment of tolls and charges.” ...

Both versions note that the officials reaffirmed the historic security relationship between the Republic of Panama and the United States of America and that they agreed to continue strengthening ...

As part of the agreement and in coordination with the Panama Canal Authority, the two sides will allow the “expedited transit of warships and auxiliary vessels of the Republic of Panama and the ...

Panama will also guarantee “the expedited transit of warships and auxiliary vessels of the Republic of Panama and the United States.” ...

At the White House Thursday, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump admitted that U.S. troops have been deployed to the Panama Canal. “We’re taking back the canal. China’s had too ...