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 Donald Trump said in his proclamation declaring February 9 Gulf of America Day: "I took this action in part because, as stated in that [executive] order, the area formerly known as the Gulf ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

Back in Nuuk, Lynge turns to the map once more to reflect on how Greenland became caught up in a much bigger game. He refers ...

Supporters of the move believe USAID was poorly managed and wasting taxpayers' money, with White House Press Secretary ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Department’s claim that his country had reached a deal allowing U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal for free ...

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has accused the US of spreading "lies and falsehoods" after the US State Department claimed American government vessels were no longer required to pay a fee to ...

Panama appears to have bowed to Donald Trump’s aggressive style of diplomacy by ditching its involvement in China’s Belt and ...

President Trump says the canal authority is overcharging. Recent increases are attributed in part to drought, maintenance ...

The authorities could allow the country’s currency, the peso, to weaken against the dollar, effectively making its exports ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama ... interest in establishing a route across Panama: ships from New York ...

“Moreover, we cannot ignore how much Panama sacrificed for the canal, when it lost all the lands and towns built on the route.” Greene, the author of Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean ...