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TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - President-elect Donald Trump says the United States should invade Panama to reclaim the Panama Canal, which the U-S ceded possession of in the late 1970s. He says Panama ...

The canal, which was completed in 1914, was handed over to Panama by the United States in 1999, following a bilateral treaty signed in 1903, after Panama's separation from Colombia.

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.

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later ...