Protesters from various left-leaning groups and organizations took to the streets Monday. The News Herald got a chance to talk to some.

Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported by the United States, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries.

Nearly 100 migrants who had been locked in a Panama hotel were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “There are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.

A boat carrying 19 migrants, part of a “reverse flow” of migrants who once hoped to reach the United States, capsized off Caribbean coast of Panama

They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S. Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants have given up after President Donald Trump’s

Panama has transferred about one-third of the deportees from various nations it had received from the United States to a camp in its Darien province Wednesday, an area that became the main thoroughfare for migrants traveling from South America to the U.

Beijing and Washington are also at loggerheads over another waterway in the Americas: the Panama Canal. Trump said China has gained control over the canal—a claim both Panama City and Beijing have denied.

A black, massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by tugboats stern and aft, and sweating Panamanians hoisting yellow ropes to latch onto the ship's higher levels.

Donald Trump’s threat to take back control of the Panama Canal harks back to decades of US intervention in Latin America.

Deportees numbering 300, including Indians, are being detained at a Panama hotel awaiting deportation to their home countries after being expelled by the US under President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.