The answer is simple: there is no greater or more idealistic symbol of U.S. power in the world than the Panama Canal. As ...

Trump’s words reiterate an age-old ... the Panama Canal Zone. The treaty that made that possible gave the U.S. complete and permanent control over the Zone “as if it was sovereign.” It resulted from ...

Trump’s words reiterate an age-old American mythology regarding the relationship between the U.S. and Panama ... owner of the French company that had continued digging the canal after his ...

Rumour has it that “for every dollar spent in Hong Kong, five cents end up in Li Ka-shing's pockets”, French ... the Panama Canal Authority, that sets the fees based on decades-old agreements ...

During his inaugural address, President Trump claimed that the United States “lost 38,000 lives” during the construction of the Panama Canal. This is similar to a claim he’s made before—in 2023 he ...

As if inspired by Netanyahu brandishing the map of a single great Israel before the UN General Assembly, here is Trump, season 2. A strategy of unpredictability and generalised threat? Symptoms of the ...

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When the Panama Canal was unveiled by the United States in 1914, the roughly 50-mile-long waterway symbolized American power ...

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

Tensions between Panama and the U.S. rose after World War II, especially after the U.S. pressured France and the UK to give up on attempting to retake control of the Suez Canal from Egypt in 1956.