Panama may be the first subject of Trump’s geopolitical sabre-rattling with China, but it will certainly not be the last.

Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa first spotted the Pacific Ocean ... As water is diverted through culverts into the locks, it raises ships 85 feet to the surface of Gatún Lake ...

He alleges that “American ships are being severely overcharged ... It was here, on Sept 25, 1513, that Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa first saw the “South Sea” – the Pacific ...

Travelling from one side of the Americas to the other by ship no longer involved rounding ... the Isthmus of Panama since the 1500s, when Spanish ruler Charles V ordered a survey of a potential ...

“There is no presence of any nation in the world that interferes with our administration,” he said Monday in a statement in Spanish ... which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is ...