PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years of American policy will more closely resemble an imperial conquest ...

The U.S. initially acquired the rights to build and operate the Panama Canal in 1903 through the Hay–Bunau–Varilla Treaty ...

Panama’s leader said he ... Mr. Trump is not the first American president to worry about hostile interference with the canal. During World War II, the Roosevelt administration acted to defend ...

President Trump wants Panama ... canal to the U.S. Panama’s birth as a nation is directly linked to the U.S.’s coming of age as a young imperial power after its victory in the Spanish-American ...

A few hours later, he signed an executive order that praised how the 25th president “heroically led our nation to victory in the Spanish-American ... War there were thousands.) The Panama Canal ...

During the 2024 campaign at his many rallies, Donald Trump almost always mentioned the United States’ construction of the Panama ... the Canal to both the U.S. government and the American economy. As ...

The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to “demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and ...

Leaders had been eyeing the Isthmus of Panama since the 1500s, when Spanish ... American elites that the Canal Zone had to end.’ Julie Greene, author of The Canal Builders After World War ...

By the mid-20th century, control of the canal had become a source of tension between the U.S. and Panama, erupting into anti-American riots ... would take an act of war, effectively, for the ...

In his first speech as America's 47th president on Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump called for the U.S. to gain control of the Panama Canal, stating, "We're taking it back." Without evidence to support his ...