They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Panama and four other countries in Central America and the Caribbean starting late next week during his first overseas trip as Washington's top diplomat, ...

President Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition ...