and for decades afterward in the U.S.-administered Panama Canal Zone, a stretch of land 5 miles on either side of the 50-mile canal governed as sovereign U.S. territory. “Gold dollars for the ...

1st Lt. Jack Bordes, the executive officer for the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment of the 192nd Ordnance Battalion (EOD), graduated from the elite Sapper Leader Course on Fort Leonard ...

At the time, the U.S. still controlled the Canal Zone, but dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega, an erstwhile CIA operative and indicted drug trafficker, increasingly found himself in American crosshairs ...

(Aris Martinez/Reuters) The Panama Canal Zone is President Donald Trump’s kind of place. For thousands of Americans who were born or raised there during the decades when it was a tropical ...

Trump, re-upping a post-election promise, decried the US’s decision to give the Canal Zone back to the Republic of Panama, accusing the linchpin country between Central and South America of ...

Photos courtesy of B. Gil Horman. Global Ordnance (GO), a veteran owned business headquartered in Sarasota, Fla., has imported and distributed ammunition, firearms and support gear from around the ...

and sovereignty over a Canal Zone reaching five miles on either side – cutting a swathe through the middle of the new republic. By the US army corps of engineers, using imported workers from the ...

The “Canal Zone,” a 10-mile-wide corridor, became the symbol of Panama’s incomplete sovereignty. The events of Jan. 9, 1964, when Panamanian students defended with their lives the right to ...

Meanwhile, Schlafly joined Loeb and other conservative leaders on the Emergency Committee to Save the U.S. Canal Zone to lambast any cession of the Canal as threatening the nation’s security.

Donald Trump has long been fixated on the Panama Canal, a crucial shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He has railed against rising tolls on American ships (though the increases ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a warning about the Panama Canal, saying the current status of the trade route is “unacceptable.” According to a summary of Rubio’s meeting with Panama ...

Shortly thereafter, the United States and the newly formed Panamanian government signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, granting the United States control of a canal zone in exchange for financial ...