For decades, Trump has railed against Jimmy Carter’s decision to give the canal to Panama.

The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

Zone police had engaged in a blazing gunfight—to prevent mobs from overrunning a U.S. housing ... Canal Zone. Nothing less than “complete revision” of the entire operation would lead Panama ...

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 ...

Trump, re-upping a post-election promise, decried the US’s decision to give the Canal Zone back to the Republic of Panama, accusing the linchpin country between Central and South America of ...

They finally erupted on Jan. 9, 1964, when a group of students rushed to the Canal Zone and raised Panama’s flag over Balboa High School. In response to their protest, American students and ...

Rubio, traveling to the Central American country and touring the Panama Canal on his first foreign trip as top U.S. diplomat, held face-to-face talks with Mulino, who has resisted pressure from ...