Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and ...

Capt. Efraín Hallax, 73, has been steering vessels through the canal, and he has seen it all, from a dictator’s fall to the ...

The United States will "take back" the Panama Canal from Chinese influence, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on ...

Hegseth arrives at a particularly delicate moment as Panama wrestles with deep U.S. concerns about Chinese commercial ...

The final version, a scaled-back “memorandum of understanding” signed Wednesday by Hegseth and Panama’s security chief Frank ...

Without enough freshwater flowing in, the canal’s locks can’t raise and lower ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Droughts mean fewer ships per day, and that can quickly affect ...