Moments after President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on his plans to take back the Panama Canal, Panama’s president said Sunday that the canal will remain under his country’s control. In a video ...

The controversy also provoked the predictable bevy of corporate media commentary criticizing Trump: Pundits explained, as if uninformed Americans thought otherwise, that he cannot simply “take it back ...

It was a territory known to some who lived there as a tropical utopia. The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly 75 years. But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed treaties ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has in recent days repeatedly denounced what he sees as China’s outsized influence on the Panama Canal – the crucial maritime passageway linking the Atlantic and ...

First came the French. A syndicate led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the diplomat who had led construction of the Suez Canal, ...

President-elect Donald Trump told a conference of fascist supporters in Arizona that the United States would demand the return of the Panama Canal to US control if the Panamanian government failed to ...

In 1903 the young country of Panama signed a treaty with the United States allowing the construction and control of the Panama Canal Zone. The treaty placed the Panamanians at a disadvantage resulting ...

Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and... It was a territory known to some who lived there ...