U.S. Ambassador to Panama Kevin Cabrera reported that the Trump administration mobilized personnel and humanitarian assistance within a day of the 7.7 earthquake that struck the Latin American nation on October 9, emphasizing that help arrived without using the disastrous United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The U.S. government is set to redirect over $50 million in U.S. military assistance from European and Middle East countries toward supporting conservative, U.S.-friendly governments in Latin America, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday.
The Chinese communist regime on Monday insisted that Panama puts the “One China Principle” into practice to preserve its diplomatic ties with China after a group of Panamanian lawmakers recently established a friendly working group with legislators from Taiwan.
The Chinese communist regime, through its embassy in Panama, expressed China’s rejection of a new parliamentary working group created by Panamanian and Taiwanese lawmakers.
The Chinese Embassy in Panama published a bizarre image on Monday of a sobbing shumai, a form of dumpling typically left open on the top, with a microphone stuck into it as a form of protest against American diplomats.
Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison announced that it seeking $1.5 billion in damages through international arbitration proceedings launched against Panama on Wednesday over the loss of two key Canal contacts this year.
Salvadoran Vice President Félix Ulloa is proposing the creation of a “Central American Union” similar to the European Union.
The foreign minister of Panama pilloried the Chinese Communist Party during remarks at the Organization of American States (OAS).
The United States on Wednesday announced a $3 million partnership with the government of conservative President José Raúl Mulino to undo the environmental damage caused by the tons of garbage left behind by the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that transited through the dangerous Darién Gap jungle trail in recent years.
The Chinese communist regime, through its embassy in Panama, accused U.S. ambassador Kevin Marino Cabrera of “denigrating” Huawei and spreading rumors about China after he suggested that the Chinese companies like Huawei are not trustworthy.
The United States and several U.S.-allied Latin American and Caribbean nations on Tuesday released a joint statement in support of Panama amid the Chinese regime’s ongoing retaliatory campaign after Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison lost control of two key Canal ports.
President Donald Trump and his MAGA voters saved the lives of more than 1,000 migrants who would otherwise have died en-route to a Democratic-run U.S. border in 2025, according to data from the United Nations.
Venezuela extradited Ali Zaki Hage Jalil, a man long accused of being involved in Hezbollah’s 1994 bombing of Panama’s Alas Chiricanas Flight 901, the U.S. embassy in Panama announced on Monday.
Foreign Minister of Panama Javier Martínez-Acha on Sunday rejected Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and criticized the Islamic regime’s use of the waterway as a geopolitical tool amid its ongoing conflict with the U.S and Israel.
Foreign Minister of Panama Javier Martínez-Acha on Wednesday called for China to respect Panama’s legal sovereignty amid a series of arbitrary detentions of Panama-flagged vessels by Chinese authorities after Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison lost control of two key Canal ports.
U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Laura DiBella on Thursday warned that the FMC is closely monitoring a surge in detentions of Panama-flagged vessels by Chinese authorities after the Panamanian Supreme court annulled contracts that gave Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison control of two key Panama Canal ports.
A Trump administration official told Breitbart News that Chinese officials have now threatened to detain Panamanian-flagged vessels in China, something that could disrupt global commerce and represents retaliation against Panama for recent developments taking control of the two ports on either end of the Panama Canal out of the hands of a Hong Kong company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The Chinese Ministry of Transportation on Tuesday summoned representatives of shipping giants Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) to discuss how “international shipping operations” have been disrupted by the Iran war and the Panama Canal legal dispute.
Officials from Panama’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Thursday raided the offices of Panama Ports Company (PPC), a China-linked organization that up until recently controlled two key ports at the Panama Canal.
The government of Panama on Monday took administrative and operative control of two key Panama Canal ports following the Panamanian’s Supreme Court ruling that annulled the contracts signed with a China-linked organization.
Conservative President of Panama José Raúl Mulino issued a stern warning to the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday not to expect its threats against his country to be tolerated, responding to browbeating from Beijing following a ruling against Panama Canal contracts signed with a regime-linked corporation.
The business outlet Bloomberg reported on Thursday that its anonymous sources affirmed that the Chinese Communist Party had ordered an end to “projects” in Panama following that nation’s top court ruling that a deal granting outsized power to a Hong Kong corporation over the Panama Canal was unconstitutional.
U.S. Ambassador to Panama Kevin Cabrera over the weekend emphasized in an official statement that the recent ruling from Panama’s Supreme Court nullifying two Canal port contracts awarded to a China-linked company strongly affirms the rule of law.
The Supreme Court of Panama ruled on Thursday that two decades-long contracts awarded to Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, to operate two ports in the Panama Canal were unconstitutional.
A group of 50 U.S. Marines will begin a six-week long joint training program in Panama alongside local military officials Monday, local outlets reported.
The Chinese embassy in Panama on Sunday expressed its “deep dismay, strong indignation, and firm opposition” to the recent demolition of a Chinese monument in the city of Arraiján this weekend.
The U.S. Coast Guard is awaiting for additional resources to arrive before potentially attempting to stop and board another oil tanker linked to Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Foreign Minister of Panama Javier Martínez-Acha said on Monday that the Panama-flagged oil tanker recently interdicted by the United States failed to comply with the country’s maritime rules.
Panamanian authorities announced they have arrested ten people and seized about 13.2 tons of drugs from a U.S.-bound ferry in the Pacific.
Latin America, once fertile ground for China to sign “Belt and Road” infrastructure deals with poor countries, is turning its back on “crappy” construction projects that erode the sovereignty of local governments, a senior State Department official told Breitbart News.
Socialist Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva welcomed his Panamanian counterpart José Raúl Mulino on Thursday to sign several bilateral agreement and support Panama’s control of the Panama Canal.
Migrant crossings at Panama’s Darien Gap plunged to nearly nothing in May and June, an important indicator of illegal immigration to the United States.
Panama’s comptroller general sued against the contract that allows a China-linked company to control two Panama Canal ports.
The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine announced on Monday that it had plans to open four new embassies in Latin America by the end of the year and over ten new consular offices in Europe – in part at the expense of Ukraine’s embassy in Cuba.
Drag queen Xunami Muse has revealed to fans that he is self-deporting from the U.S.A. and back to his home in Panama.
British authorities seized 2.4 metric tons of cocaine in a ship arriving in England from Panama, authorities said Saturday, calling it one of the U.K.’s biggest drug busts in years.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem observed a deportation flight of illegal aliens in Panama who sought to make it to the United States-Mexico border to cross illegally.
U.S. Ambassador to Panama Kevin Cabrera on Thursday said that the United States is working together with Panama to eliminate “China’s malign influence” in the Panama Canal.
Chinese state media announced on Wednesday that Colombia has signed a “joint cooperation plan” that will bring it into the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s gigantic worldwide infrastructure plan.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had one mission on his trip to Panama — to secure a deal to get “first and free” passage for U.S. ships in the Panama Canal, a critical waterway for the United States’ economy and military that was at risk of falling under China’s control.
