In recent weeks, when he was President-elect Donald Trump publicly said that Panama should return the Panama Canal to the ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

During Monday’s inauguration, Donald Trump repeated his threat to retake the Panama Canal. The United States controlled the ...

Some Panamanians saw Trump's remarks as a way of applying pressure on Panama for something else he wants: better control of ...

In his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump repeated his plan to regain control of the Panama Canal. Can he?

President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...