In recent weeks, when he was President-elect Donald Trump publicly said that Panama should return the Panama Canal to the United States, and he would not rule out using military force to reclaim it. At his presidential Inauguration on Monday Trump doubled down on saying that his new administration was going to take back the canal.

In his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump repeated his plan to regain control of the Panama Canal. Can he?

Trump has suggested using military force to retake the Panama Canal, but such an action would involve complications.

President Trump said of the Panama Canal, “We’re taking it back.” The letter from Panama cited articles of the U.N. charter that prohibit member states from using threats and force.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country familiar with U.

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PANAMA CITY — Panama’s President José Mulino ... to rule out the use of military force to take back the Panama Canal, which the U.S. ceded to Panama a quarter-century ago.

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The administrator of the Panama Canal said Friday that the vital waterway will remain in Panamanian hands and open to commerce from all countries, rejecting claims by ...