Are Donald Trump’s threats against Panama and Greenland serious or just grandiose bluster? As an historian, I take their ...

Frequent droughts have pushed authorities to pursue a controversial plan to dam a river to save the waterway — an act that ...

Donald Trump’s threat to take back control of the Panama Canal harks back to decades of US intervention in Latin America.

Panama’s president has said that he instructed the country’s foreign minister to not discuss the U.S. government’s ...

When Trump speaks of his admiration for McKinley, he expresses the desire of the rapacious American oligarchy to return to ...

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

The Panama Canal crisis isn’t over yet, and it may be only the first stage of a wider conflict about whether the U.S. can contain China’s control of the world’s commercial maritime logistics network.

All three, Trump, Mckinley and Roosevelt, stand out for advancing US interests aggressively. But McKinley appears to have ...

Shortly after, the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty granted the US perpetual rights to the Panama Canal Zone, solidifying American control over the strategic waterway. From 1904 to 1914, under President ...

The United States built the canal, one of the engineering marvels of the day, after helping Panama achieve independence from Colombia. Roosevelt the nationalist envisioned the canal as an ...

In operation for 110 years, the Panama Canal is one of the world's greatest feats of engineering. It's also a vital component in global trade: around $270 billion (£217bn) worth of cargo passes ...

Roosevelt’s spin erased the exploitation of workers, who largely came from the West Indies, and the significant role that Panama played in the project. As Lasso explained, the Canal Zone’s 41 ...