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Nearly 300 deportees from US held in Panama hotel as officials try to return them to their countries
Read full article: Nearly 300 deportees from US held in Panama hotel as officials try to return them to their countriesPanama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported by the United States, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries.
US deports 119 migrants from a variety of nations to Panama
Read full article: US deports 119 migrants from a variety of nations to PanamaPanama's president has said his country has received the first U.S. flight carrying deportees from other nations as the Trump administration takes Panama up on its offer to act as a stopover for expelled migrants.
Here's how Rubio's first trip abroad as top US diplomat got overshadowed by foreign policy at home
Read full article: Here's how Rubio's first trip abroad as top US diplomat got overshadowed by foreign policy at homeU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his heart: immigration, counternarcotics and curbing Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere.
Panama's president denies making a deal that US warships can transit the canal for free
Read full article: Panama's president denies making a deal that US warships can transit the canal for freePanama President JosĆ© RaĆŗl Mulino has rejected the U.S. State Departmentās claim that his country had reached a deal allowing U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal for free.
Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans
Read full article: Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including AmericansU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has left El Salvador with an agreement from that countryās president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
Rubio says Panama must reduce Chinese influence around the canal or face possible US action
Read full article: Rubio says Panama must reduce Chinese influence around the canal or face possible US actionU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told Panamaās president that the country must reduce Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or face potential retaliation from the Trump administration.
Rubio says Trumpās interest in Greenland and Panama Canal is legit and driven by China concerns
Read full article: Rubio says Trumpās interest in Greenland and Panama Canal is legit and driven by China concernsSecretary of State Marco Rubio says President Donald Trumpās desire to acquire Greenland and retake control of the Panama Canal is driven by legitimate national security interests stemming from growing concerns about Chinese activity in the Arctic and in Latin America.
Panama's president says there will be no negotiation about ownership of canal
Read full article: Panama's president says there will be no negotiation about ownership of canalPanama President JosĆ© RaĆŗl Mulino says there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal.
Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Trump's comments on canal
Read full article: Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Trump's comments on canalPresident Donald Trumpās insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country familiar with U.S. military intervention.
Panama Canal administrator pushes back against Trump's assertions of Chinese meddling
Read full article: Panama Canal administrator pushes back against Trump's assertions of Chinese meddlingThe administrator of the Panama Canal has responded to criticisms from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, denying that there is any interference from China in the canalās operations and saying giving special privileges to any nation would only cause problems.
Panama marks Martyrs' Day as Trump threatens to retake control of Panama Canal
Read full article: Panama marks Martyrs' Day as Trump threatens to retake control of Panama CanalA Panamanian national holiday remembering the killing of 21 protesters by police and U.S. troops in 1964 is taking on new resonance this year as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatens to take back control of the Panama Canal.
Venezuelan opposition leader rallies support in Panama ahead of Maduro inauguration
Read full article: Venezuelan opposition leader rallies support in Panama ahead of Maduro inaugurationSelf-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo GonzƔlez is rallying regional support for the opposition's claims that he won the July election against President NicolƔs Maduro.
Trump threatens to try to take back the Panama Canal. Panama's president balks at the suggestion
Read full article: Trump threatens to try to take back the Panama Canal. Panama's president balks at the suggestionDonald Trump is suggesting that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal.
Panama says migration through border with Colombia is down since President Mulino took office
Read full article: Panama says migration through border with Colombia is down since President Mulino took officePanama's border police says that migration through the Darien Gap dividing Colombia and Panama has declined significantly this month since Panamanian President JosĆ© RaĆŗl Mulino took office and ordered authorities to get control of the dense jungle frontier.