But in the Canal Zone, what flag to ... were unfurled at Balboa (see map). Before long, a crowd of 150 Panamanian high school students appeared carrying Panama’s national emblem.

The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly ... "So it very much created a road map of inequality," Corinealdi says. But President Carter alongside Panamanian military leader ...

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 ...

On Dec. 21, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns. In one post, which had ...

It is a key part of Panama’s economy. In 2024, the canal earned nearly $5 billion in total profits. According to a study released in December by IDB Invest, 23.6% of Panama’s annual income is ...

The social and racial divide along the Panama Canal Zone in its American heyday was stark: a silver and gold, segregated system of pay — and life. “Separate schools, clubhouses, commissaries ...

Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, reportedly delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next week.