The cargo ship Cosco Houston tests a new set of locks at the Panama Canal as part of a canal expansion project, in June 2016. Carlos Jasso/Reuters Panama has owned and administered the Panama ...

The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly ... free schools, state-of-the-art medical facilities, manicured lawns, clean streets, little-league football and Fourth of July ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... poet Goethe predicted the building of the Panama Canal by the United States.

Handing control of the Panama ... of-the-art medical facilities, manicured lawns, clean streets, little-league football and Fourth of July parades. But when Panamanians set foot in the Canal ...