President Trump wants Panama to return its namesake canal to the U.S. Panama’s birth as a nation is directly linked to the U.S.’s coming of age as a young imperial power after its victory in ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

As this issue gains attention, it is worth exploring the history of the Panama ... leader Omar Torrijos, set a timeline for the gradual transfer of the canal to Panama. Over 22 years, control ...

In a column titled “The troubled history of the Panama Canal’s racial and social divide,” Dvorak explains how the legacy of the U.S.-built shipping route “includes segregation and violence.” ...