and sovereignty over a Canal Zone reaching five miles on either side – cutting a swathe through the middle of the new republic. By the US army corps of engineers, using imported workers from the ...

As Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to Panama on his first official foreign trip, reassumption of American control over the Panama Canal Zone is on the agenda. With Panama refusing to back ...

Consequently, the new government granted the US open-ended use of the future canal, and sovereignty over a Canal Zone reaching five miles on either side – cutting a swathe through the middle of the ...

For most of the 20th century, Panama was physically severed in two by the US-controlled Canal Zone, which ran through the middle of the Central American country. Thanks to Panamanian diplomacy ...

Donald Trump has long been fixated on the Panama Canal, a crucial shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He has railed against rising tolls on American ships (though the increases ...

Rubio’s envoy for Latin America, Mauricio Claver-Carone, has said the “creeping presence of Chinese companies and actors throughout the Canal Zone” will be an “issue of discussion” on ...

Rubio, traveling to the Central American country and touring the Panama Canal on his first foreign trip as top U.S. diplomat, held face-to-face talks with Mulino, who has resisted pressure from ...

China and Brunei have pledged to work together on oil and gas exploration in the Sea, though a Chinese analyst noted that ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a warning about the Panama Canal, saying the current status of the trade route is “unacceptable.” According to a summary of Rubio’s meeting with Panama ...

They lived in a narrow strip of land called the Zone, bordering both sides of the strategically valuable waterway. The more privileged of the Zonians – officials, canal workers and military ...

"This increasingly creeping presence of Chinese companies and actors throughout the Canal Zone, in everything from ports and logistics to telecommunications infrastructure and otherwise ...