Built and once controlled by the U.S., the canal is now owned by Panama, which charges fees for passage. “We’re being ripped off ... a canal never got far. The French finally took up the ...

As United States President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term on Monday, he repeated his wishes to acquire the Panama ... who built the Suez Canal in Egypt. The French attempt lasted ...

On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would ...

Trump has made his calls for retaking the Panama Canal one of his priority foreign policy issues in his first days in office, criticizing the Carter administration’s 1977 decision to sell the ...

A French attempt to build a canal ... strongman Omar Torrijos for the US and Panama to jointly administer the crucial waterway, with the canal being fully turned over to Panama at midnight on ...