#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/27/2014 #5

The first rolling gate for the new locks on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal is transported on a barge with the help of two tugboats in Panama City. The Canal’s 3rd set of locks has sixteen rolling gates, eight for each new lock complex. The expansion project will allow bigger ships to transit.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/17/2014 #2

People take pictures as tugboats help a barge transporting the last rolling gate for the new locks on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal through the Miraflores locks in Panama City December 10th, 2014.

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#3 Click this link to see Blog page --> 12/31/2016

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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/13/2017 #8

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#5 Click this link to see Blog page --> 09/07/2018

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#6 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 08/15/2021 #3

In 1914, Panama Canal opened to commercial traffic. #PanamaCanal

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#7 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/07/2021 #3

In 1977, the Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos. #PanamaCanal

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#8 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/10/2021 #1

In 1913, the Panama Canal was effectively completed as President Woodrow Wilson sent a signal from the White House by telegraph, setting off explosives that destroyed a section of the Gamboa dike. #PanamaCanal

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#9 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/26/2022 #3

In 1904, the United States and Panama proclaimed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to undertake efforts to build a ship canal across the Panama isthmus. Isthmian Canal Commission #PanamaCanal

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#10 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/18/2022 #17

In 1978, the Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999. #PanamaCanal

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#11 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/04/2022 #4

In 1904, the United States took over construction of the Panama Canal from the French. #PanamaCanal

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#12 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/16/2022 #10

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos signed the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties during a ceremony in Panama City. #PanamaCanal

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#13 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/18/2024 #2

A cargo ship leaves the Panama Canal in Panama City. The Panama Canal will once again increase the number of ships transiting its waters daily, Panama Canal authorities said. The canal is gradually approaching the volume of vessels it received before 2023, the year in which it suffered a water shortage crisis.

Since early 2023, the Republic of Panama has experienced one of the driest years on record. Precipitation from the area of the Panama Canal Watershed (PCW), source of 100% of the water used by the Panama Canal for its operations, was below average for all but one of the 8 months that make up Panama’s rainy season (May-December). LINK Panama Canal #PanamaCanal MjL

#14 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/23/2024 #2

Twitler threatened Sunday to demand control of the Panama Canal be returned to the United States, and went after Canada and Mexico for ‘unfair’ trade practices. “The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, highly unfair”, he told a crowd of supporters in Arizona on Sunday. It was Twitler’s first major Hate Fest rally since regaining control of the White House with a convincing win.

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#15 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/01/2025 #2

People hold Panama’s national flags during a protest against Twitler who intends to reclaim the Panama Canal, days before the arrival of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in Panama City, Panama.

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#16 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/03/2025 #3

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned President José Raúl Mulino of Panama on Sunday that the current status of the Panama Canal -- which Twitler wants to regain control of -- was “unacceptable.” Rubio met with Mulino on Sunday in Panama City during his first international trip as the United States’ top diplomat. the trip, which began on Saturday, is set to conclude Thursday. He is also scheduled to visit El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. According to a readout of the meeting from the U.S. State Department, Rubio told Mulino and Foreign Minister Javier Martínez that Twitler has made a “preliminary determination” that China’s influence over the Panama Canal, which the United States built in the early 1900s, violated treaties that transferred control of the important trade route from Washington to Panama City. Rubio, according to the State Department, told Mulino that canal’s “status quo is unacceptable and that absent immediate changes, it would require the United States to take measures necessary to protect its rights under the Treaty,” he said, referring to the Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal.

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#17 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/05/2025 #1

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Panama Canal Authority Administrator Ricaurte Vasquez talk during a tour of the Miraflores locks in Panama City.

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#18 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/06/2025 #3

The Panama Canal Authority late Wednesday said it has made no change to its tolls or other fees, denying the Twitler administration claim that it has agreed to no longer charge U.S. government vessels for transiting the important trade route. “In response to a publication released by the United States Department of State, the Panama Canal Authority, which is authorized to set tolls and other fees for transiting the Canal, reports that it has not made any adjustments to them,” it said in a statement.

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#19 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/07/2025 #3

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said it was “absurd” that Panama charges U.S. government ships to use its canal, walking back a State Department proclamation claiming the Latin American country had agreed to allow their vessels to transit the important trade route for free.

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