Part of his justification for American ownership of the Panama Canal is that the U.S. “spent more money than ever spent on a ...

The Trump administration is taking proactive measures to regain control over the Panama Canal and reduce Chinese influence at ...

The Panama Canal Authority has denied the ... US would be “taking back” the canal – the construction of which was started by France in 1881 but completed in 1914 by the United States.

The Panama Canal ... 1881. Plans included locks built by Gustave Eiffel, famed builder of the Eiffel Tower. Despite big dreams and massive effort, French attempts ultimately fell apart because of the ...

In 1869, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had delivered the Suez Canal through Egypt, agreed to replicate the feat in 1881 in Panama (then a province of Colombia). But slashing through ...

President Donald Trump is a man with a plan for the canal, namely to force Panama to limit China’s influence on the vital 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific or risk the United ...

The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to “demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and ...