blasting through mountains and the erection of complex locks across the Isthmus of Panama. Thousands of laborers, many from Caribbean nations, perished in the massive canal project.

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama ... a waterway across the 51-mile isthmus between the Pacific and the ...

The Panama Canal is no stranger ... together on this very small isthmus,” said Ana Elizabeth González, executive director and chief curator of the Panama Canal Museum, highlighting the diverse ...

It connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The length of the Panama Canal from shoreline ... the Gulf of America on US maps. But the rest of the world ...

a railway was built across the isthmus). The US secured the rights to build a canal – which, when completed, would cut the sea journey by half. Partly by gunboat diplomacy. The US government bought ...

Though seemingly unintentional, President Donald Trump’s comments on the Panama Canal just happened ... disastrous attempt to construct a canal across the isthmus in the late 19th century ...

Trump has complained that China exerts control over the canal and charges U.S. ships six-figure premiums to cross Panama's isthmus. The canal was built over several decades by the U.S. and ...

Panama’s small Chinese community traces its roots in the 19th century and the arrival of laborers who came to help build the railroad, then the canal, that cross the isthmus. | Ben Schreckinger ...

One of the world’s busiest shipping passageways, roughly 4 percent of the world’s maritime trade and more than 40 percent of US container traffic traverse the 51-mile route across the Isthmus of ...

Vessels able to fit through the Panama Canal were known to shipbuilders as “Panamax” and after a 2016 upgrade to the canal “New Panamax”. Leaders had been eyeing the Isthmus of Panama ...