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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

They had subsidised housing, their own police and judiciary ... Members of the Canal Zone Roller-Skating Club in Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone, 1955.Credit: Getty Images, digitally tinted ...