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The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed ...
More than 2,000 people could be displaced by the construction of the Río Indio dam. The Panama Canal Authority says the dam solves a long-term water shortage problem.
The construction of the fourth bridge over the Panama Canal is behind schedule, with only 17% to 18% of the work reportedly completed to date.
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.
For Panama Canal visitors, here’s a guide to experiencing and understanding the mega engineering project that captivates the world.
Here's what to know about the United States' involvement with building and operating the Panama Canal.
Panama’s control of the canal that bears its name should not be returned to the United States despite President Donald Trump’s calls of “we’re taking it back,” Panamanians say.
PANAMA CITY — 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, Donald ...
A history of the Panama Canal — and why the US can't just take it back Unless he goes to war with Panama, Donald Trump can't reassert control over a canal the U.S. agreed to cede in the 1970s.
His fascination is nothing new. “The Panama Canal is doing quite well,” Donald Trump beamed in June 2017 during one of his earliest meetings with another world leader. “I think we did a good ...