UmairPanama Canal Fees Have Become a Flashpoint. Here’s Why They’ve Risen.
The cost of using the Panama Canal has risen in recent years — excessively so, President Trump has asserted. The canal operator says droughts, investments in upgrades and sheer demand…
Marco Rubio Tells Panama’s Leader ‘Immediate Changes’ Are Needed
Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to escalate the Trump administration’s confrontation with Panama on Sunday, telling its leader that President Trump had determined that Chinese “influence and control” over…
Latin America Gets Into Deal-Making Mode for Rubio’s Visit
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio begins his first overseas trip on Saturday in Panama, Central American countries are largely reeling under the weight of President Trump’s confrontational approach, including…
Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics
In the end it took only about 12 hours for President Trump’s first head-to-head confrontation with one of the United States’ closest allies in Latin America, a blowup over Columbia’s…
Why William McKinley, the 25th President, Is Trump’s New Hero
William McKinley hasn’t had a starring role on the American political stage like this in 124 years. There he was, lauded in President Trump’s inauguration speech on Monday, for making…
Panama Alerts United Nations to Trump’s Inaugural Remarks
Panama submitted a formal letter to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and the U.N. Security Council on Monday, rejecting comments that President Trump made about reclaiming the Panama Canal during…
Latin American Leaders Welcome and Warn Trump
In the weeks before he took office, Donald J. Trump repeatedly vowed to carry out the largest deportations in U.S. history and to militarize the border, all while his transition…
In Pursuing Canal, Trump Could Push Panama Closer to China
As Panama’s president laid a wreath to honor those who died protesting the American occupation 60 years ago, the ceremony attendees were resolute. The commemoration this month came just days…
