A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon, Panama, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, ...

For weeks, Donald Trump has been stating his intention to take control of the Panama Canal, a critical 51-mile long waterway ...

A cargo ship traverses the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in ... the building of the canal commenced during the reign of US President Theodore Roosevelt, who was obsessed with the idea ...

If commercial fees are typically low and America’s navy already has cheap and preferential access, why is Mr Trump ...

We are still days away from Donald Trump's inauguration, yet the president-elect is already making progress on an important foreign policy matter.

To ensure the canal could be built, then-President Theodore Roosevelt supported Panamanian independence, and in 1903, the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that established permanent U.S. rights to ...

President-elect Trump said on Tuesday that negotiating away the Panama Canal ... his plans for the canal. However, more than a century ago, another Republican – Theodore Roosevelt – celebrated ...

On this strategic question, the president-elect and Ronald Reagan are in agreement.

The construction of the Panama Canal began in 1904 under President Theodore Roosevelt. The waterway was built to provide a speedy way to ship goods between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The canal was built between 1904 and 1914, mostly by the US, with then-President Theodore Roosevelt overseeing the construction. The government of Panama owns the canal. When did Panama get ownership?

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent lament that the United States ceded control of the Panama ... canal. This was the early twentieth-century logic that compelled President Theodore Roosevelt ...