By Marianna Parraga PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Communities in Panama that would have to relocate under the Panama Canal's plan to ...

The Panama Canal has long been the backbone of global shipping, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. For over a ...

For the curious traveler contemplating a trip to Panama — also home to rainforests, deserts, volcanoes and more than 1,600 islands — here’s CNN Travel’s guide to how to visit the canal.

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic ...

The Chinese Embassy in Panama on Tuesday published a press release on Ambassador Xu Xueyuan’s recent meeting with Ricaurte ...

The Panama Canal's impact on the geopolitical stage far outreaches its roughly 51-mile stretch of land and water. This week, we're trying to understand the canal's murky future - from climate ...

Donald Trump claim: Panama Canal construction left 38,000 Americans dead “The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in ...

Roosevelt believed the construction of the canal would be one of the nation's greatest achievements: “To my mind this building of the canal through Panama will rank in kind, though not of course ...

Joan Flores-Villalobos, an assistant professor of history at USC, is the author of ” The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal.” She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

About 5,600 out of 56,000 workers are believed to have died from injury or disease during the U.S. phase of construction, according to the Panama Canal Authority, most of whom were from the Caribbean.

The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to “demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and ...