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. “Separate schools, clubhouses, commissaries ...

The Panama Canal Zone is President Donald Trump’s kind of place. For thousands of Americans who were born or raised there during the decades when it was a tropical outpost of U.S. power ...

On Dec. 21, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. In one post, which had ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic ...

In 2007, Panama began work on the canal’s largest expansion in nearly a century, a new set of locks that would allow larger ...

US troops will be able to deploy to a string of bases along the Panama Canal under a joint deal seen by AFP Thursday, a major concession to President Donald Trump as he seeks to reestablish ...

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 ...

When Donald Trump announced his intention to “take back” the Panama Canal from China, I had to chuckle. My old friend Linc, who had died in 2005, was having the last laugh after all.

And while it’s true that racial segregation existed in the Panama Canal Zone, with separate bathrooms, water fountains, and ...

A woman places flowers by a portrait depicting one of the Panamanian students who was killed during the January 1964 anti-American riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone, marking Martyrs ...

Trump recently claimed 35,000 or 38,000 "American men" died building the Panama Canal between 1904 and 1914. And while thousands of lives were indeed lost during construction to malaria, yellow ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic ...