China has long eyed the Panama Canal as a major competitor in global trade, and with the Nicaragua Canal project, it seemed ...

How many Americans died building the Panama Canal? “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 ...

The Panama Canal, which Trump has repeatedly discussed taking back control of, was the most expensive public works project in U.S. history up until that time, with about $302 million spent on ...

It was an implicit quid pro quo. Panama received independence, and the United States was able to build the canal after the Spaniards gave up on the prospect, and the French failed in their efforts.

The United States began building the canal in 1904, the year after Panama gained independence from Colombia with U.S. support.

In 1902 the U.S. Senate approved the building of the canal in Panama, but then the Colombian congress rejected the deal, hoping to renegotiate for more money. Not to be deterred, Roosevelt wielded ...

According to the president, Panama has broken the neutrality pledge it signed in 1999 when the U.S. formally handed over control of the canal back to the nation.

Panama was then a province of Colombia, which refused to ratify a subsequent 1901 treaty licensing U.S. interests to build the canal. Roosevelt responded by dispatching U.S. warships to Panama’s ...

The Panama Canal crisis isn’t over yet, and it may be only the first stage of a wider conflict about whether the U.S. can contain China’s control of the world’s commercial maritime logistics ...