The U.S. helped engineer Panama's independence from Colombia to build the canal, which opened in 1914. But it ceded control ...

President-elect Trump is sparking a new feud with Panama over an old topic: the vital maritime canal connecting the Atlantic ...

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 ...

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

Latin American leaders on Dec 23 rallied to Panama’s defence after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reimpose US control over the Panama Canal, a key global shipping route located in ...

After Donald Trump suggested the U.S. can retake control of the canal if it’s not “treated fairly,” Panama’s president pushed back.

Panama was then a province of Colombia, which refused to ratify a subsequent 1901 treaty licensing U.S. interests to build the canal. Roosevelt responded by dispatching U.S. warships to Panama's ...

Three days later, Panama's ambassador to Washington signed a treaty granting the U.S. rights to build and indefinitely administer the canal. The U.S. paid Panama $10 million and later a $250,000 ...

A History of the Panama Canal — and Why Trump Can't Take It Back on His Own PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this ...