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The Panama Canal is one of the most remarkable engineering feats in history, revolutionizing global trade and travel by ...
By Marianna Parraga PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Communities in Panama that would have to relocate under the Panama Canal's plan to ...
Cristina Henríquez ‘s 2024 work of literary fiction, The Great Divide, has everything I’ve been looking for in a book — a historic setting (the construction of the Panama Canal), a large ...
It was these migrants who paid for the construction of the canal with their lives — some 5,000 to 8,000 individuals, by historians’ estimates. It’s unclear how Trump arrived at the 38,000 ...
Joan Flores-Villalobos, an assistant professor of history at USC, is the author of ” The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal.” She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.
Roosevelt believed the construction of the canal would be one of the nation's greatest achievements: “To my mind this building of the canal through Panama will rank in kind, though not of course ...
Donald Trump claim: Panama Canal construction left 38,000 Americans dead “The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in ...
For the curious traveler contemplating a trip to Panama — also home to rainforests, deserts, volcanoes and more than 1,600 islands — here’s CNN Travel’s guide to how to visit the canal.
The Panama Canal's impact on the geopolitical stage far outreaches its roughly 51-mile stretch of land and water. This week, we're trying to understand the canal's murky future - from climate ...
The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to “demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and ...
President Donald Trump announced a series of sweeping changes after being sworn in as the 47th U.S. President on Monday, including plans to "take back" the Panama Canal.
About 5,600 out of 56,000 workers are believed to have died from injury or disease during the U.S. phase of construction, according to the Panama Canal Authority, most of whom were from the Caribbean.