The US and Panama signed a treaty in 1979, starting a handover process that saw Panama take full control of the canal in 1999. "We could not cross into the canal zone without being arrested if we ...

Ahead of the secretary of state’s visit, Panamanian flags covered the streets of Panama City and the former Canal Zone, where they were once prohibited during the era of American control.

On the ground here, members of the country’s small political elite have been bracing for either: As tensions over the Panama Canal ratcheted up last month, Panama’s former president ...

And they were visible everywhere in such suburbs as Albrook and Clayton, a former neighborhood and fort, respectively, in the previously U.S.-administered Panama Canal Zone. What gives?

7 (UPI) --Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said it was "absurd" that U.S. government ships are charged to use the Panama Canal after ... pay fees to transit a zone that we are obliged ...

Of the many sweeping changes President Trump has been focused on during his return to the White House is control over the Panama Canal. Since winning the 2024 election, Trump has mused over ...

A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by tugboats stern and aft, and sweating Panamanians ...

On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in the Dominican Republic that he finds it “absurd” that his country must pay fees “to transit a zone” that ... Jorge Quijano, former canal ...

By the 1960s, though, with anti-imperialist sentiment ascendent, Panama wanted its land back. In 1977, US president Jimmy Carter signed a treaty to hand over control of the canal and the Zone ...

The U.S. Special Envoy for Latin America, Mauricio Claver-Carone, said Friday that the fault lies not with Mulino but with former Panamanian ... assets throughout the canal zone to China,” he stated.

Marco Rubio’s trip should focus on countering Chinese investment in Latin America and helping Panama stem illegal ... and actors throughout the Canal Zone, in everything from ports and logistics ...