Trump may want to turn back the clock on half a century of incompetent negotiation and poor deal-making, but legally, he has ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later ...

The canal remained unfinished, but the dream had not yet ended. Theodore Roosevelt would soon take up the cause. Shortly after ascending to the presidency, Roosevelt spoke of the Panama Canal in a ...

Roosevelt immediately declares the need to build a canal in Central America. The stirring of a movement for Panama's independence begins with a meeting between Senator Arango, employees of the ...

President Donald Trump issued perhaps his most important executive order to date. It is titled “Restoring America’s Maritime ...

However, as he knew from first-hand experience fighting in Cuba during the War of 1898, the United States had vested interests in the Caribbean, and Roosevelt therefore ensured the protection of the ...

In 1902 the U.S. Senate approved the building of the canal in Panama, but then the Colombian congress rejected the deal, hoping to renegotiate for more money. Not to be deterred, Roosevelt wielded ...

This story began with an image, a 4-year-old Cristela Guerra, pictured above right, next to a U.S. soldier during one of the ...

Trump demands U.S. ships travel free through Panama and Suez canals, citing America's role in building and protecting the ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is ...