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 ...

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 ...

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

The Panamanian political leadership presumably hasn't been sleeping so well the past several weeks. After the election, Trump ...

Panama last month celebrated the 110th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, which in its day was one of the most expensive and dangerous infrastructure endeavors ever undertaken.

China on lashed out at what it called U.S. “coercion” after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with Beijing following Washington’s threat to take back the Panama Canal ...

Panama's decision to leave a key investment deal with China has drawn accusations from Beijing of "pressure and coercion" by ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal for free ...

The State Department said Wednesday that "U.S. government vessels can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees." ...