Granting Trump's demand for US ships passing through the Panama Canal to get preferential treatment would "lead to chaos," the waterway's leader said.

The canal executive said China doesn’t control route and U.S. ships can’t get better rates than others.

The Panama Canal Authority chief dismissed President-elect Trump’s claims that China is controlling the trade route and criticized his comments about fees. Ricaurte Vásquez Morales told The Wall Street Journal that Trump’s accusations that China is running the Panama Canal are “unfounded.

Granting Donald Trump’s demand for US ships passing through the Panama Canal to get preferential treatment would “lead to chaos,” the head of the authority running the waterway said Wednesday. “Rules are rules and there are no exceptions,

A 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 bac

The leader of the Panama Canal Authority denied President-elect Donald Trump’s claims that China is controlling the vital trade route and said Trump’s suggestion that U.S. ships get preferential rates “will lead to chaos.

Hundreds of Panamanians marched on Thursday to mark the anniversary of a deadly uprising against U.S. control of the Panama Canal in 1964, with some protesters burning an effigy of President-elect Donald Trump who has threatened to retake the vital global waterway.