Panama and the U.S. signed a new security pact on the canal, boosting defense ties as tensions with China over Latin American ...

(MENAFN- The Rio Times) The United States is pressuring Panama to grant free passage for its Navy through the Panama Canal ... these claims, Panama's Minister of Security denied plans for ...

Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and ...

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that the US will not allow China to threaten the Panama Canal. Hegseth met with Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino. China denied it interfered ... a statement ...

Mulino publicly denied ... US never should have turned the canal over to Panama and that maybe that it should take the canal back. Read more‘Trump is lying’: Panama’s president refutes ...

The Hong Kong conglomerate rejects audit findings as Washington moves to curb Beijing’s footprint in Latin American infrastructure and strategic shipping lanes. CK Hutchison, the Hong Kong-based ...

The United States ... currently in Panama for the first time since his confirmation, signed the agreement that will allow the U.S. to go “first and free through the Panama Canal” on Wednesday.

The discrepancy comes after earlier rhetoric from President ... Panama Canal, what he means is “we’re taking back the canal from Chinese influence, that involves partnership with the United ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R) talks with Panama Canal Administrator Ricaurte Vasquez during a visit to the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City on April 8, 2025.

The United States and Panama have officially signed a new defense and security pact aimed at reinforcing control over the Panama Canal, a move that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims is ...