May 29, 1879: The French Attempt Two years after a ... is signed in the newly independent republic of Panama, giving the United States rights to build a canal on the Panamanian isthmus for ...

Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision.

PARIS, Nov. 26. -- Panama was debated in the Chamber of Deputies for a full half hour to-day, and during the entire time there was not one word about corruption. The fact is worth chronicling ...

Built and once controlled by the U.S., the canal is now owned by Panama, which charges ... Spanish and British initiatives to build a canal never got far. The French finally took up the project ...

Trump’s tirade of Christmas Day social media posts about Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal was blatantly inflammatory ...

All vessels, including warships and submarines, are given a Panama Canal pilot. Panama's independence from Colombia in 1903 is linked to the canal. Following the failure of French count Ferdinand ...

who maneuvered a complex situation involving the French, the government of Colombia, and the Panamanian people to build the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is vital to free commerce and the ...

But it was not until 1878 that Colombia - which then counted Panama as a province - signed a concession with French engineers ... rights to build and indefinitely administer the canal.

May 29, 1879: The French Attempt Two years after a ... is signed in the newly independent republic of Panama, giving the United States rights to build a canal on the Panamanian isthmus for ...

But it was not until 1878 that Colombia - which then counted Panama as a province - signed a concession with French engineers ... rights to build and indefinitely administer the canal.