The United States also used land in Panama for a variety of military activities, from training astronauts (Neil Armstrong trained in jungle survival at an Air Force base in the Canal Zone) to testing ...

On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political ...

inside the US-operated Panama Canal Zone. Just four days prior, Mulino had been couple of hundred yards away from where she spoke, laying a wreath at the eternal flame that marks the memorial to ...

Though seemingly unintentional, President Donald Trump’s comments on the Panama Canal just happened to coincide almost ...

inside the US-operated Panama Canal Zone. Just four days prior, Mulino had been couple of hundred yards away from where she spoke, laying a wreath at the eternal flame that marks the memorial to the ...

Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal may be posturing ... trying to plant the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-occupied canal zone were met with deadly force. “My brother did not die ...