Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to ...

January 26, 2025 Twenty-five years after its return to Panama, the Panama Canal, an artificial waterway connecting the ...

PAUL SOLMAN: In 1977, Jimmy Carter finally conceded the canal to Panama. When Panama took over, it established an independent government authority to run the canal for profit and to modernize it.

The Panama Canal Authority is the government agency that ... In the 1970s, a protester suggests giving Panama Jimmy Carter’s home town of Plains, Georgia, instead of the Panama Canal.

Washington had suggested Panama had agreed to no longer charge fees for US government vessels using the waterway.

Trump has accused Panama of charging U.S. ships exorbitant rates to transit the canal, which he said was “foolishly” given away by President Jimmy Carter ... The Torrijos-Carter Treaties established ...

The U.S. president has announced several times in recent weeks that he intends to «bring back» the Panama Canal. For many ...

The U.S. operated the canal until 1977 when President Jimmy Carter negotiated and signed ... its operation went under the control of the Panama Canal Authority, an independent government agency.