Built and once controlled by the U.S., the canal is now owned by Panama, which charges fees for passage. “We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere ...

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.

History of the Panama Canal . The Panama Canal was built by the United States between 1904 and 1913, and opened in 1917. Building the canal cost about $375 million, ...

The question posed by thousands of drivers living in Western Panama who have waited for years for another way to cross the ...

My point was that having built the Panama Canal, the United States had more right to it than the Russians did to the straits between the Black and Mediterranean Seas, ...

The Panama Canal was built for our military. I'm not going to commit to that. It may be that you'll have to do something. The Panama Canal is vital to our country. It's being operated by China.

Depending on the size, weight, and type of vessel, ship owners often pay anywhere between $15,000 and $300,000 in basic fees ...

On Dec. 21, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. In one post, which had ...

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 sale of two ports near the Panama Canal to a global consortium led by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) threatens the ...

It is the Panama Canal Administration Building, a stately, tile-roofed structure that sits atop a pyramid-shaped hill near the Pacific end of the canal. It was inaugurated in 1914 as the ...