Newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing to "take back" the Panama Canal, the world's second busiest ...

UNT Dallas political science professor outlines the implications of Trump’s threat to the Panama Canal. Trump’s suggestion ...

President Donald Trump's suggestion of the U.S. taking control of the Panama Canal has a legal basis partly due to potential ...

Panama is inching closer to China, Trump’s new Federal Maritime Commission head Louis Sola tells CNBC, and ‘all options on ...

Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter ...

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.

President Trump’s threat to retake the canal came out of the blue, inflaming Panamanians. But Trump’s view is nothing new.

“It’s Panama’s government, via the Panama Canal Authority, that sets the fees based on decades-old agreements of neutrality,” added Rosendal. All ships transiting the canal are subject ...