The social and racial divide along the Panama Canal zone in its American heyday was stark: a silver and gold, segregated ...

Donald Trump has threatened to retake control of the Panama Canal unless “rip-off” transit fees are reduced for US ships. In social media posts, the president-elect said the 51-mile waterway ...

Its origins can be traced back to 1513, when Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa first crossed the land ... The United States controlled the Panama Canal and the surrounding Panama Canal Zone for ...

The U.S. acquired the rights to build and operate the canal in the early 20th century, but at the time, Panama was in the ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will ...

he would abandon the decades-old treaty that returned all control of the canal zone to Panama.Credit...Federico Rios for The New York Times By David E. Sanger and Lisa Friedman David E.

Moments after President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on his plans to take back the Panama Canal, Panama’s president said Sunday that the canal will remain under his country’s control.

“As president, I want to express clearly that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama, and will continue to do so,” Mulino said in video ...

This region, known as the Panama Canal Zone, was administered by the United States and U.S. law applied to the inhabitants of the region. But after decades of tensions around the canal ...

stating that "every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zones" belongs to Panama. The president held up a red book titled "Torrijos Carter Treaty" as he referenced the 1977 agreement ...