Trump Threatens Again to Retake Panama Canal While Distorting Deadly History of Waterway
During Monday’s inauguration, Donald Trump repeated his threat to retake the Panama Canal. The United States controlled the waterway since the early 20th century, but in 1977 President Jimmy Carter signed a landmark treaty to give Panama control of the canal.
More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...
and for decades afterward in the U.S.-administered Panama Canal Zone, a stretch of land 5 miles on either side of the 50-mile canal governed as sovereign U.S. territory. “Gold dollars for the ...
On a sunny day last week, a group of American teen-agers marched up and raised a U.S. flag over their high school at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. It seemed an everyday thing to do. But in ...
On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to ...
Panama has written to the U.N. to reject President Donald Trump's threats over the Panama Canal made during his inauguration ...
President Trump said of the Panama Canal, “We’re taking it back.” The letter from Panama cited articles of the U.N. charter ...
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