El presidente de Panamá, José Raúl Mulino, negó que su gobierno hubiera concedido el paso libre a los barcos del gobierno ...

Panama - January 26, 2025 Twenty-five years after its return to Panama, the Panama Canal, an artificial waterway connecting ...

As United States President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term on Monday, he repeated his wishes to acquire the ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and how does that ripple out to the global economy?

A team from NPR's All Things Considered went to Panama to report on the canal there, which has gained attention in recent months due to President Trump's comments about the U.S. taking control of it.

He said a de facto closure of the Suez Canal has increased demand for transits via the Panama Canal, which has given rise to a bidding process to determine which vessels can use the canal.

In 1999, Panama took full ownership of the canal, which would remain neutral and ... that Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa first saw the “South Sea” – the Pacific Ocean.

The idea for a canal across Panama, which at the time was part of Colombia, was the brainchild of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the celebrated French engineer who completed construction of the Suez Canal ...

Ilya Espino de Marotta, the deputy administrator of the Panama Canal, said China had no influence over the waterway, and that any contracts awarded to Chinese companies were done transparently.

“The canal is managed by the Panama Canal Authority ... However, these concerns dissipated when evidence emerged that Panama had already de-flagged 53 Iranian vessels suspected of sanctions ...

de facto, a degree of influence over his conglomerate and, indirectly, over how it manages its network of ports”. Trump’s criticism of the way the Panama Canal is run rests in part on his ...