Teddy Roosevelt Panama Canal

Panama rejects talks with Trump over canal threat

Panama Canal is not for sale, Panama's president says. What to know about the canal's history and status

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 process of seceding from Colombia, whose senate was refusing to ratify a treaty that would allow the canal to be built, according to the State Department's Office of the Historian .

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A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can't take it back on his own

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to take back the waterway for the same republic.

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With Trump's Panama Canal talk, it feels like 1976 all over again

It's unclear how the issue of ownership of the Panama Canal became a talking point for President-elect Donald Trump this week, but the question has a long political history.

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The troubled history of the Panama Canal’s racial and social divide

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

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No, the U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal

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

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A history of the Panama Canal — and why the US can't just take it back

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is ...

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Trump’s Panama Canal threats designed to scuttle China influence

The president-elect intends to push back on Beijing’s “growth and strategic footprint” in the Western Hemisphere, said ...

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