First came the French. A syndicate led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the diplomat who had led construction of the Suez Canal, ...

The Panama Canal, a 51-mile maritime shortcut linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is a crucial artery of global trade and a longstanding focal point of international geopolitics. Since its ...

In 2014 for its 100-year anniversary, thePanama Canal Authority is modernizing and expanding the canal between theAtlantic and Pacific. The construction includes installation of new locks tothe two ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After ...

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. Although most people ...

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The cargo ship Cosco Houston tests a new set of locks at the Panama Canal as part of a canal expansion project, in June 2016. Carlos Jasso/Reuters Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal ...

Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from West Palm Beach, Fla. President-elect Donald J.