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 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding ...

The United States also used land in Panama for a variety of military activities, from training astronauts (Neil Armstrong trained in jungle survival at an Air Force base in the Canal Zone ...

Built in the early 20th century by the U.S., it was for almost a century an American enclave that literally divided the country of Panama in two. The “Canal Zone,” a 10-mile-wide corridor ...

Often called one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Panama Canal splits the continents of North and South America ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama—President Trump’s reasons for wanting control of the Panama Canal can be found at either end of the interoceanic waterway. Every day, dozens of cargo ships pass by blue ...

inside the US-operated Panama Canal Zone. Just four days prior, Mulino had been couple of hundred yards away from where she spoke, laying a wreath at the eternal flame that marks the memorial to ...

At a gathering for the conservative Turning Point USA organization on Dec. 22, Trump proclaimed, “We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal ... to Save the U.S. Canal Zone to lambast any ...