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Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Panama City was selected for a $714.5 million contract to build three ferries for Washington ...
The right-wing Mulino government has imposed Operation Omega to crack down on working class resistance to austerity measures.
By the 1970s, with its administrative costs sharply increasing, Washington spent years negotiating with Panama to cede control of the waterway. The Carter administration worked with the government ...
President Donald Trump's Homeland Security chief on Tuesday praised a US agreement with Panama on migrant repatriation flights and said Washington was ready to replicate it with other countries. Under ...
A history of the Panama Canal — and why the US can't just take it back Unless he goes to war with Panama, Donald Trump can't reassert control over a canal the U.S. agreed to cede in the 1970s.
It built the Panama Canal, strengthened the canal's strategic position in the hemisphere and used Panamanian land as a training ground for its troops. At one point, Washington had 130 military ...
During a visit to Panama on April 9, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared that Washington “will not allow China to threaten the security or operations of the canal,” as quoted by AFP. ...
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.
The Jenkinses of Federal Way are among nearly 800 Washington state investors named in the Panama Papers, the leak of 11.5 million secret documents that exposes offshore accounts.
Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal, and he hopes U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ...
Panama said on Wednesday the United States recognized its sovereignty over the Panama Canal, despite tough rhetoric from Washington, as the two nations announced agreements to deepen U.S. military ...