Those tensions reached a peak on January 9, 1964, when anti-American riots led to several deaths in the Canal Zone and the brief severing of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

This treaty granted the U.S. control over the Canal Zone, a 10-mile-wide strip of land across Panama, in exchange for a $10 million payment and an annual annuity. The deal secured U.S. sovereignty ...

At the time, the U.S. still controlled the Canal Zone, but dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega, an erstwhile CIA operative and indicted drug trafficker, increasingly found himself in American crosshairs ...

and for decades afterward in the U.S.-administered Panama Canal Zone, a stretch of land 5 miles on either side of the 50-mile ...

Panama’s location between two continents and two oceans explains why it’s a geopolitical hot spot, and why it has so many ...

It was a territory known to some who lived there as a tropical utopia. The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly 75 years. But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed treaties ...

Along Fourth of July Avenue, which forms the international boundary between Panama City and a residential area of the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, 2,000 demonstrators and students, angry at being ...

The social and racial divide along the Panama Canal Zone in its American heyday was stark: a silver and gold, segregated system of pay — and life. “Separate schools, clubhouses, commissaries ...