Panama was then a province of Colombia, which refused to ratify a subsequent 1901 treaty licensing U.S. interests to build the canal. Roosevelt responded by dispatching U.S. warships to Panama's ...

The canal remained unfinished, but the dream had not yet ended. Theodore Roosevelt would soon take up the cause. Shortly after ascending to the presidency, Roosevelt spoke of the Panama Canal in a ...

Roosevelt immediately declares the need to build a canal in Central America. The stirring of a movement for Panama's independence begins with a meeting between Senator Arango, employees of the ...

The United States built the canal, one of the engineering marvels of the day, after helping Panama achieve independence from Colombia. Roosevelt the nationalist envisioned the canal as an ...

The dream conjured up by President Teddy Roosevelt was ultimately achieved through a treaty signed between the U.S. and freshly-independent Panama in 1903. The canal remained under U.S. control ...

Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops' ...

Cuba wasn’t a mere colony, it was part of my country. Expansionism is outdated.

However, as he knew from first-hand experience fighting in Cuba during the War of 1898, the United States had vested interests in the Caribbean, and Roosevelt therefore ensured the protection of the ...

The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering. This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is an artery of world trade ...