Trump’s Panama Port Predicament
China’s growing influence over key infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean has set the Trump administration on edge. Nowhere have the White House’s concerns been sharper than around the ...
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Bananas, After the Strike
When Christopher Columbus first set eyes on Bocas del Toro on Oct. 6, 1502, he was struck by the area’s natural beauty. The archipelago, located on present-day Panama’s northwestern Caribbean ...
With Territory Comes Torment
In December 1899, John Barrett, a former minister to Siam (today Thailand) who had spent months accompanying the U.S. Navy squadron that defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines, wrote ...
A Man, a Plan, and a Long History of Overplayed Hands
In March, during a joint address to Congress, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the United States would be “reclaiming” the Panama Canal and “taking it back.” The remarks prompted ...
Third Pentagon official put on leave amid leak investigation
A third top Pentagon official has been put on leave amid an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense. The latest official potentially implicated in the probe is Colin ...
