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On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states are constitutionally compelled to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, legalizing gay marriage nationwide.
A boy watches buses during a Red Devils tuning exhibition in La Chorrera, Panama, Sunday, June 30, 2024. The Red Devils are repurposed U.S. school buses once used in the Panama Canal Zone and ...
Records show that the first evictions of populations near the waterway took place in 1912, when the Panama Canal Zone was under US control, following a decree issued by then-US president William ...
President Johnson's announcement on December 18, 1964, that the United States is prepared to renegotiate the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty apparently has given encouragement to the efforts of the new ...
The Trump White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.
Two months before the United States ceded control of the canal, in 1999, U.S. intelligence concluded that the company’s presence did not threaten canal operations or American interests in Panama.
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.
In 1964, anti-American riots broke out in Panama because the Panamanian flag was not allowed to fly next to the U.S. flag at Balboa High School in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone that was attended ...
On Jan 9, 1964, students protested in the then-US controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama's flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to the ...
Avendaño said she was 11 years old the last time the U.S. invaded her country and hoped Panama’s current government would seek international support to head off Trump’s designs on the canal.
On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there.