“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 ...

he made several false claims about the canal, including that 38,000 Americans died building it. Previous fact checks have found the number is closer to 300. China has invested heavily in Panama ...

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 ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump reiterated threats he has made about the Panama ... made in building and transferring the canal. He repeated that 38,000 Americans had died ...

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 ...