The US military carried out small-scale survival and jungle combat drills on Panama's Caribbean coast Wednesday, as ...

History suggests that an effort to overthrow Nicolás Maduro could be disastrous for the region and ultimately harm the U.S.

Panamanian-American Cristina Henríquez portrays the construction of the crossing in a new novel and finds an echo with the ...

UNITED NATIONS — The United States and China clashed over the Panama Canal at the United Nations on Monday, with the U.S. warning that Beijing’s influence over the key waterway could threaten global ...

Will Freeman, fellow for Latin America studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss President Donald Trump’s calls for the United States to retake control of the Panama Canal. Welcome to ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday that someone at the U.S. Embassy has been threatening to ...

President Donald Trump's threats toward Venezuela mark the dawn of a new era of U.S. intervention in the Western Hemisphere.

China has accused the United States of showing "a lack of basic respect" for Central America following its threat to ban officials and others from the region with ties to the Communist Party from ...

A senior Panamanian official said on Monday that Panama will remain flexible and potentially reach an agreement with CK Hutchison as the Latin American country navigates the geopolitical rivalry ...

Prior to the origination of the plans for the Panama Canal vessels of trade had few options of getting goods from Europe and Asia to N. America. One was to sail around the southern tip of South ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. 1) The Panama Canal is a chokepoint for global trade. Today, the canal handles 5 ...