Panama’s president has said that he instructed the country’s foreign minister to not discuss the U.S. government’s ...

President José Mulino said Panama's sovereignty over the world's second busiest waterway is not up for discussion.

Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that ...

February 06, 2025 Panama's President, José Raúl Mulino, stressed Thursday that he “will not” break diplomatic relations with China despite threats by US President Donald Trump to “take back” the Canal ...

PANAMA CITY — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio brought a warning ... Rubio told Mulino that Trump believed that China’s presence in the canal area may violate a treaty that led the United States to ...

Hundreds of migrants, many from the Middle East and China, are in custody in Panama after they were deported from the U.S. as ...

The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say ...

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

Beijing and Washington are also at loggerheads over another waterway in the Americas: the Panama Canal. Trump said China has ...

The U.S. has deported more than 400 migrants — from nations as far as China and Vietnam — to Panama and Costa Rica, leaving ...

Wei Qiang, China's first ambassador to Panama, attends a bilateral signing ceremony at Simon Bolivar Palace, the ministry of foreign relations, in Panama City, Dec. 7, 2017. | Arnulfo Franco/AP ...