To ensure the canal could be built, then-President Theodore Roosevelt supported Panamanian independence, and in 1903, the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that established permanent U.S. rights to ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama—When President Theodore Roosevelt formulated plans for the Panama Canal, there was no Panama.The country was still part of the Republic of Colombia despite bouts of on-again ...

President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt helped the U.S. take it over.

The construction of the Panama Canal began in 1904 under President Theodore Roosevelt. The waterway was built to provide a speedy way to ship goods between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

To counter such worries, President Roosevelt exerted tremendous effort to make the canal project an idealistic symbol of U.S. global power. In a flamboyant trip to Panama in 1906, the first time a ...

President-elect Donald Trump is not letting up on his suggestions that the US should retake the Panama Canal, ... President Theodore Roosevelt made the completion of a passageway a priority.

The Panama Canal has taken on an unexpected significance in Trump’s ... The United States obtained the right to construct and operate the canal in 1903 under President Theodore Roosevelt, ...