and for decades afterward in the U.S.-administered PanamaCanalZone, 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 “CanalZone,” a 10-mile-wide corridor ...
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 PanamaCanalZone. It seemed an everyday thing to do. But in ...