When the Panama Canal was unveiled by the United States in 1914, the roughly 50-mile-long waterway symbolized American power ...
Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter ...
They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.
The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.