“The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building ... Panama Canal,” told the BBC that about 25,000 people ...

I think not only was it audacious of Trump to claim he’s going to take back the canal, but he was — his statement, just before that clip, that 38,000 Americans died building the Panama Canal ...

The Panama Railroad, when it opened in 1855, became the primary transportation route across the isthmus. After building the Suez Canal ... and diseases. The deaths of 20,000 workers became ...

The Panama Canal is the largest public work project in US history and an engineering marvel. There is a system of locks that lifts the vessels and pushes them by gravity using the force of a water ...

In 2024, the canal earned nearly $5 billion in total ... Marines died in the fighting that ensued. For 13 years, US and Panamanian officials discussed a plan to return the canal to Panama during ...

PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years of American policy will more closely resemble an imperial conquest or a ...