The Panama Canal does not use cranes or pumps to lift ships, but a carefully engineered system of locks and gravity. This video explains how water levels, lock design, and water saving basins work ...

The delegation also met with Guatemalan and Salvadoran leaders last week in an effort to counter China's influence.

Discover the history of the Panama Canal. Learn from when the construction began, how this waterway connects the Atlantic and ...

I transited the Panama Canal and discovered how Theodore Roosevelt's impossible dream became reality through determination ...

The country seeks to calm US aggressiveness with more anti-drug collaboration. Seen from the skyscraper wall of the most thriving city in Central America, at dawn, over the silver-colored Pacific, a ...

Mr. Hogan teaches in the history and literature program at Harvard. His research focuses on Central America and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. While the large U.S. military force ...

A Panama Canal cruise checks a lot of boxes for senior travelers: itineraries promise warm weather, a culturally-rich region and one of the world’s great engineering spectacles. Most cruises are ...

WASHINGTON — In 2023, Panama experienced one of the worst droughts in its recorded history, and it severely depleted water available to the Panama Canal, so much that it decreased shipping by 30%. A ...

Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly this week, standing firm on his country’s control over the Panama Canal. In a speech that cut through ongoing ...

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has set out an ambitious investment plan, for the next ten years, with the aim of strengthening its strategic role in global trade and ensuring its sustainability. The ...