The President accused China of “lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal.” The truth is more complicated.

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 ...

Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama ...

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

A container ship transits through the Cocoli Locks at the Panama Canal, on the outskirts of Panama City, in August 2024. (Enea Lebrun/Reuters) Trump's reiteration of his threat about the Panama ...

FILE - A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon, Panama, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) ...

As he went to shake Trump’s hand, the president mentioned that in his experience there were “a lot of crooks” in Panama ... canal or about anything.” The canal’s original 1914 locks ...