Incoming US president has repeatedly stated that Beijing is ‘operating’ the crucial waterway – an untruth, but one that gets ...

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

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

The Panama Canal has a complicated history, although we found no evidence of it being under China's control as Trump also ...

The Panama Canal was built by the United States between 1904 and 1913, and opened in 1917. Building the canal cost about $375 million, making it the most expensive construction project in U.S ...

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

“The Panama Canal is doing quite well,” Donald Trump beamed in June 2017 during one of his earliest meetings with another world leader. “I think we did a good job building it.” Then ...

During the 20th century, US-Panama tensions worsened and there were growing protests against US control of the canal, notably after the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, when British and French plans to ...

An effort to establish a canal through Panama began with the French in 1880 ... the U.S. finished building the canal on Aug. 15, 1914. Almost immediately, some Panamanians began questioning ...