Donald Trump, President of the United States: We lost 38,000 people building the ... It looks like pure colonialism. In 1977, Jimmy Carter finally conceded the canal to Panama.

Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project. His plan called for a sea-level canal to be dug along the path of the Panama Railroad. Some 50 miles in length, the canal would be ...

on March 30th 1854 who were instrumental in building the Panama Canal. What many don’t know is that the PCA is actually an autonomous apolitical authority in which Panama changed its ...

After a failed attempt to build a canal through Panama by French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal in Egypt, the U.S. took over construction in 1904. The canal was ...

Under President Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. began building the canal in 1903 ... The capital, Panama City, has an imposing horizon of skyscrapers while the colonial old city, once a fetid slum ...

The Panama Canal ... doesn’t need the Panama Canal to do it. Starting about 45 years ago, the U.S. government began abandoning polices that had, going back to colonial times, ensured that ...