U.S. Blindsides Panama, Saying American Government Ships Will Get Free Canal Passage
No formal deal has been agreed to as President Trump threatens an American takeover of the strategic waterway.
The Panama Canal: A Trump obsession more sideshow than substance
For decades, Trump has railed against Jimmy Carter’s decision to give the canal to Panama.
Rubio says Panama must reduce China’s influence around canal zone or face possible U.S. action
S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday that the Central American ally must immediately reduce Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or face ...
Tariff Retaliation Begins as Trump Acknowledges ‘Pain’ Is Possible
The authorities could allow the country’s currency, the peso, to weaken against the dollar, effectively making its exports ...
Rubio embarks on mission impossible: Retake the Panama Canal
President Trump’s secretary of state arrived in Panama City on Saturday with a brazen mandate from his boss and a wary host.
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Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Trump's comments on canal
On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to ...
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Trump’s Panama Canal threats leave country’s officials scrambling for answers
inside the US-operated Panama Canal Zone. Just four days prior, Mulino had been couple of hundred yards away from where she spoke, laying a wreath at the eternal flame that marks the memorial to ...
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Panama: Crisis Over the Canal
Zone police had engaged in a blazing gunfight—to prevent mobs from overrunning a U.S. housing ... Canal Zone. Nothing less than “complete revision” of the entire operation would lead Panama ...