The State Department claimed it had struck a deal that would save the U.S. government “millions of dollars a year.” ...

But dependent on the US to protect their freedom from Colombia, Panama’s hands were tied. The US imported workers to build the canal from across the Caribbean. An ingenious system of locks ...

Panama’s President Raúl Mulino criticized as an “intolerable” falsehood the US State Department’s claim that the Central ...

is seriously considering a second canal to handle growing commercial traffic. Yet 5,600,000 tons of shipping still pass through the old locks each month. And Panama has long complained that it ...