News Summary

• Miriam Pensack is a historian of Latin America, and her writing on Panama, Guantánamo Bay, humanitarian refugees, Cuban history, and other subjects has been published in The Nation and The New Republic.
• Pensack: The issue of US control over the Panama Canal does have a robust history in the neocon playbook, but it’s still a rather deep cut.
• Panama was the first Latin American nation to sign on to the Belt and Roads Initiative, Beijing's sweeping global infrastructural aid project that encompasses 150 countries.