The Panama Canal: A Trump obsession more sideshow than substance
For decades, Trump has railed against Jimmy Carter’s decision to give the canal to Panama.
The Tribune15d
BJP leader flags concern over eco-sensitive zone
Nayagaon Ghar Bachao Manch and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vineet Joshi today claimed that defying the orders of the Supreme Court and denying the existence of a high-level ...
MyNorthwest.com17d
Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Trump’s comments on canal
On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to ...
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No, the U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal
He also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!” An effort to establish a canal through Panama began with the French in ...
Time21d
Panama: Crisis Over the Canal
On a sunny day last week, a group of American teen-agers marched up and raised a U.S. flag over their high school at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. It seemed an everyday thing to do. But in the ...
The New York Times23d
Panama Wants to Preserve U.S. Alliance, but Trump Could Push It Closer to China
The threat rippled through a country still haunted by the events of 1964, when students trying to plant the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-occupied canal zone were met with deadly force.
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Here’s why Trump probably wants the Panama Canal back
Download the SAN app today to stay up-to-date with Unbiased. Straight Facts™. Point phone camera here “The Canal Zone was given to the United States in perpetuity,” said Sal Mercogliano, a college ...