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 ...

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to the Panamanian government-threatening to retake the canal, by force if ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and ...

Panama is in danger of becoming a case study of how an American hard-power win could become a soft-power loss. America did ...

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has expressed interest — unprecedented in the modern era — in expanding the size ...

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

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