President Donald Trump has called for the US to retake control of the Panama Canal unless the cost of passage for naval and merchant ships is slashed. Trump’s refusal to rule out the use of force is a ...

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

The Panama Canal is back in the headlines after President Donald Trump raised political and security concerns over the future ...

blasting through mountains and the erection of complex locks across the Isthmus of Panama. Thousands of laborers, many from Caribbean nations, perished in the massive canal project.

Panama’s control of the canal that bears its name should not be returned to the United States despite President Donald Trump’s calls of “we’re taking it back,” Panamanians say.

Panama became an American ally. Interest in a canal through the Isthmus of Panama went back to 1513, when a Spanish explorer discovered it. In the Nineteenth Century, the French builder of the Suez ...