In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to the Panamanian government-threatening to retake the canal, by force if ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and how does that ripple out to the global economy?

One of the U.S. Navy's eleven aircraft carriers collided with a Panama-flagged merchant ship Wednesday off the Egypt coast near the Suez Canal.

The Trump administration is framing the President’s vow to take back the Panama Canal as an economic investment, not “imperialistic expansion." ...

ANDREW NATSIOS served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

The Trump administration needs to figure out the proper balance between coercion and diplomacy, and how it affects ...

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

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