Some Panamanians saw Trump's remarks as a way of applying pressure on Panama for something else he wants: better control of ...

It was a territory known to some who lived there as a tropical utopia. The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly 75 years. But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed treaties ...

But there it was, in a Truth Social post and then a preholiday speech in Phoenix, where Trump demanded lower shipping rates through the canal or "we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned ...