The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

Marco Rubio will travel to Panama on his first trip abroad as secretary of State. The visit comes as Donald Trump looks to reclaim Panama's canal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make his first official trip abroad next week to Central America, ...

Republicans hoping to thwart Beijing’s influence in Latin America are urging the Panamanian government to cut ties with ...

President Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition ...

In his inaugural address, US President Donald Trump promised to "take back" the "foolish gift" from the United States that ...

The answer is simple: there is no greater or more idealistic symbol of U.S. power in the world than the Panama Canal. As ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding ...

During Monday’s inauguration, Donald Trump repeated his threat to retake the Panama Canal. The United States controlled the ...

In recent weeks, when he was President-elect Donald Trump publicly said that Panama should return the Panama Canal to the ...