Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.

The social and racial divide along the Panama Canal zone in its American heyday was stark: a silver and gold, segregated system of pay – and life.

President-elect Donald Trump is not letting up on his suggestions that the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that has been rejected by the government of Panama, which has controlled the ...

Newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing to "take back" the Panama Canal, ... Before it was built, ... a project begun by France that cost over 25,000 workers' lives.

President-elect Donald Trump is decrying rising shipping fees Panama has imposed to use the Panama Canal. ... who built Egypt’s Suez Canal, ... Some 5,600 workers died later during the U.S ...

History of the Panama Canal . The Panama Canal was built by the United States between 1904 and 1913, ... Theodore Roosevelt sits in a the carriage of a crane at the Panama Canal, while workers ...

An enormous amount of water is needed to make the Panama Canal system work, with a single ship requiring more than 50 million gallons. ‘No to the reservoir’ Olegario Hernandez is deeply ...

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, ...

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.