Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to ...

A senior U.S. military commander who oversees operations over much of Latin America will visit Panama this week to discuss ...

Donald Trump remained insistent he wants the Panama Canal ... hands of the U.S. military decades earlier. In 1964 students protested in the then-U.S.-controlled canal zone after being told they ...

Outside experts tell Military ... Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights During his inauguration speech last month, Trump proclaimed that "above all, China is operating the Panama Canal.

They have a standing military of an estimated 80,000 personnel. The Panama Canal Zone is 50 miles long and 10 miles wide. The terrain is a mix of jungle, lakes, agricultural land and urban sprawl.

Although the 1977 treaties had called for the eventual transfer of all military bases in what had been the Panama Canal Zone to the Panamanian government, as of 1989 they were still operational and ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would not rule out using “military force” to make Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone US territories. “No, I can’t assure you on either of ...

Trump, re-upping a post-election promise, decried the US’s decision to give the Canal Zone back to ... refused to rule out military force. The US previously invaded Panama in 1989 to topple ...

Panama has also experienced several US military interventions over the years ... even go inside,” said author Diaz-Espino of the Canal Zone. “They had everything. They had golf courses ...

In recent weeks, when he was president-elect, Donald Trump publicly said that Panama should ... threat of US military action to take back the canal. A war to secure the canal zone wouldn’t ...