Panama’s president ahead of Rubio’s visit
President Trump's priorities of immigration enforcement and promoting U.S. interests in the Panama Canal lead the political agenda in Washington.
Panama City ... financed the canal. This is part of the cultural – and potentially geopolitical – conundrum. Many Panamanians have relatives in the US. They study there. Florida State ...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the ...
President Trump is reportedly dispatching his newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama for his first foreign trip. Here's what's at stake.
President Donald Trump cannot take the Panama Canal — at least not legally — as he would be violating every single treaty that the U.S. has come into with Panama since 1945, international law and national security experts told WLRN.
The Panama Canal’s future security may depend less on scrutinizing foreign presences and more on rekindling the kind of robust American partnership that made the Canal’s success possible in the
Cargo ships wait to transit the Panama Canal in Panama City, on June 28 ... security concerns from US officials and were cited by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for secretary ...
Traditionally, when US secretaries of state make their international debuts, they travel to major US allies and offer bromides about working together.
We bet the folks building the Panama Canal in this Feb. 1, 1911 photo assumed the name would stick, but that’s up for debate these days. Fun fact: the Panama Canal took about 10 years to build, four years less than Boston’s Big Dig. (AP Photo)
Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.