Teddy Roosevelt would presumably be pleased. President Trump spoke loudly and swung a big stick in Panama’s direction, and it ...
More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...
Trump, in his inaugural address, accused Panama ... And they haven’t treated us fairly,” Trump said of the 1977 treaty that he said “foolishly” gave the canal away. The neutrality treaty ...
“China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China ... The U.S. under President Theodore Roosevelt pursued the rights for a canal, even helping the new government of Panama ...
The canal was completed in 1914 under the leadership of President Theodore Roosevelt ... the Panama Canal Authority, which is equivalent to $9 billion today, and Trump feels the U.S. gave up ...
He said Panama ... Roosevelt the nationalist envisioned the canal as an essential tool of US economic and geopolitical power, and so it has proved. We never should have given away such an ...
Failing to reach terms with Colombia to build a US canal, then US President Theodore Roosevelt ... US foolishly gave the canal for nothing.” Panama officials have made clear they would not ...
“Above all China is operating the Panama Canal,” Trump also said, a frequent claim he has made without providing any evidence. “And we didn’t give it to China ... J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the ...