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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In late December, Donald Trump suggested the United States should retake control of the Panama Canal in his second term. He claims Panama is imposing “ridiculous” fees on ships passing through ...

President-elect Donald Trump is not letting up on his suggestions that the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that ... President Theodore Roosevelt made the completion of a passageway ...