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Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic ...
“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 of the Panama Canal.” There were multiple attempts to build ...
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 ...
Trump recalled how the US pumped money into the construction of the canal, which former President Jimmy Carter handed back to Panama in 1977, and contended, “We have been treated very badly from ...
Julie Green, a history professor at the University of Maryland, also told PBS in 2014 that the Panama Canal was the “largest public construction project in U.S. history.” ...
The Panama Canal Repurchase Act, introduced by Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) in Congress, has brought renewed attention to the Panama Canal’s status. The proposed legislation, supported by ...
executive director and chief curator of the Panama Canal Museum, highlighting the diverse group of workers who flooded into Panama to help with construction. “We’re the bridge of the world but also ...