They finally erupted on Jan. 9, 1964, when a group of students rushed to the Canal Zone and raised Panama’s flag over Balboa High School. In response to their protest, American students and ...

Twenty-two Panamanian students and four US Marines died in the fighting that ensued. For 13 years, US and Panamanian officials discussed a plan to return the canal to Panama during both Democrat ...

but also to say to the world that Panama is sovereign and the canal is ours," said Sebastian Quiroz, an 84-year-old retired unionist who was a student during the uprising. The marching crowd ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is ...

The Canal Zone in Panama had been under ... historian and author of Panama In Black. "So it very much created a road map of inequality," Corinealdi says. But President Carter alongside Panamanian ...

Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and... It was a territory known to some who lived ...