Early this month, Trump suggested he would consider using military force to regain control of the canal from Panama, one of the U.S.'s closest allies in Latin America, describing it as “vital ...

Benjamin Gedan, Ph.D., director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, ... The U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal.

Benjamin Gedan, Ph.D., director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, ... The U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal.

Benjamin Gedan, Ph.D., director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, ... The U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal.

Benjamin Gedan, Ph.D., director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, ... The U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal.

The newly-declared Republic of Panama soon signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, which provided the U.S. with a 10-mile wide strip of land for the canal, a one-time $10 million payment to ...

Benjamin Gedan, Ph.D., director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, ... The U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal.

Benjamin Gedan, Ph.D., director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, ... The U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal.

The U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal. The waterway, which was built by the U.S. in the early 1900s, opened in 1914 and remained under U.S. government control until treaties ...

Benjamin Gedan, Ph.D., director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, ... The U.S. does not have any authority over the Panama Canal.