"He was a good man. I knew him a little bit, and he was a very fine person. But that was a big mistake." "Giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake. We lost 38,000 people.

The U.S. under President Theodore Roosevelt pursued the rights for a canal, even helping the new government of Panama to become independent from Colombia before signing a treaty that granted the U ...

The aggressive rhetoric of US President Donald Trump has shocked Panamanians, who see the waterway as a source of enormous ...

After all, the Panama Canal was an US idea, the brainchild of then-US president Teddy Roosevelt at the start of the twentieth century — and the US has had difficulty letting go of it ever since. Some ...

Before exploring what might happen during the second Trump Administration concerning the Canal, it would be best to understand how we got to now. 1903-1914: President Theodore Roosevelt negotiated ...

Franklin Foer: Until Trump started talking about it, the Panama Canal hardly ranked on the list of the top 500 strategic threats to America. Best I can tell, there were some toll increases ...

The US handed control of the canal ... make good on his threat. Panama is also a U.S. partner in stopping illegal immigration from South America — perhaps Trump’s biggest policy priority. Can ...

To Roosevelt, he attributed the construction of the Panama Canal, a man-made waterway on the Panama ... Ships from any country can traverse the canal. The treaty does not have a clause allowing ...

I can’t negotiate,” Mulino said when asked about returning the canal to U.S. control during a press conference Thursday. “That is done. The canal belongs to Panama.” Mulino said he hopes ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent lament that the United States ceded control of the Panama ... canal. This was the early twentieth-century logic that compelled President Theodore Roosevelt ...