Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter growing Chinese influence in Latin America.

When I first travelled to Panama City in 2012, the big real estate story – in a town obsessed with real estate – was the Trump Ocean Club. My driver from Tocumen airport, Roberto, had chauffeured its namesake the previous year.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country familiar with U.

We're taking it back.' Trump inauguration speech claim that the U.S. will regain control of the Panama Canal spurs immediate reaction in Panama.

Yet the image in 2018 of a worker chiselling the Trump name off a tower in Panama City may also hold a more personal explanation for renewed interest in the waterway. The canal, which was built in ...

Current and former government officials, senior canal ... Panama was also forged by his personal experiences there. Those began with the 2003 Trump-owned Miss Universe contest held in Panama City ...

Panama - January 24, 2025 25 years after the canal was transferred by the United States to Panama, the channel “has not stopped growing”, as the Panamanian government defends, with more tons in transit and economic contributions to the State,

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino says his nation intends to maintain control of the Panama Canal, after President Trump re-upped his intent to take control of the strategic waterway in his inaugural address.

We are seeing the difficulties that the Panama Canal has, they have problems with the water, in terms of fluidity, the capacity for ships to pass. So traffic is slow. There are no alternatives ...

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and housed thousands of canal employees in its two port cities. And its entertainment districts, such as Cocoa Grove in Panama City, became important recreational areas for U.S. employees on their ...