On a sunny day last week, a group of American teen-agers marched up and raised a U.S. flag over their high school at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. It seemed an everyday thing to do. But in the ...

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

Newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing to "take back" the Panama Canal, the world's second busiest ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in ...

China’s combination of presence, influence, and compromising relationships within Panama’s elite gives it numerous ...

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, ...

The Canal Zone ceased to exist in 1979 ... But two of the five ports adjacent to the canal, Balboa and Cristóbal, which sit on the Pacific and Atlantic sides respectively, have since 1996 ...

Members of the Canal Zone Roller-Skating Club in Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone, 1955.Credit: Getty Images, digitally tinted As part of a two-speed economy, other workers on the canal ...

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.