Dr. Freeman is a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has lived throughout Latin America. There’s a country in Latin America that’s not even as big as South ...

For over 40 years, Capt. Efraín Hallax, 73, has been steering vessels through the canal, and he has seen it all, from a dictator’s fall to the rise of U.S. interest in retaking the waterway. Capt.