Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trump has said he wants to again put the Panama Canal under US control, causing a stir. The US has a history of intervention in ...

President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to prepare plans for carrying out his threat to "take back" the Panama Canal ...

Havana (CNN) — A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator ...

PANAMA CITY — President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a ...

Washington’s 1989 invasion of Panama is often invoked as a model for dealing with Nicolás Maduro today. But the analogy goes only so far. In Panama, U.S. forces were already stationed in the Canal ...

The U.S. military now has the biggest buildup force in the Caribbean since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. But U.S. veterans of a more recent Latin American conflict, the 1989 invasion of Panama, say, ...