Communities in Panama that would have to relocate under the Panama Canal's plan to build a $1.6 billion reservoir filed a ...

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.

US interests have been intertwined with the Panama Canal for more than a century. The US built the canal between 1904 and 1914, then managed it for decades.

The U.S. built the canal to facilitate the transit of commercial and military vessels between the east and west coasts of the United States.

Washington relinquished control of the waterway to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. Trump has claimed that Carter “foolishly” gave the canal away.

We know the United States built the canal more than a century ago and handed sovereignty over to Panama in 1999 based on two treaties signed and authorized during Jimmy Carter's presidency.