On a sunny day last week, a group of American teen-agers marched up and raised a U.S. flag over their high school at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. It seemed an everyday thing to do. But in the ...

and for decades afterward in the U.S.-administered Panama Canal Zone, a stretch of land 5 miles on either side of the 50-mile canal governed as sovereign U.S. territory. “Gold dollars for the ...

In December 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump began repeatedly calling for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States. In a Dec. 21, 2024 post on his social media platform Truth ...

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 ...

The Canal Zone in Panama had been under ... historian and author of Panama In Black. "So it very much created a road map of inequality," Corinealdi says. But President Carter alongside Panamanian ...

the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that established permanent U.S. rights to a "Panama Canal Zone" that stretched across the nation. However, the person who negotiated on Panama's behalf did not ...

(Aris Martinez/Reuters) 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 ...

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 ...