PARIS, Nov. 26. -- Panama was debated in the Chamber of Deputies for a full half hour to-day, and during the entire time there was not one word about corruption. The fact is worth chronicling ...

May 29, 1879: The French Attempt Two years after a ... is signed in the newly independent republic of Panama, giving the United States rights to build a canal on the Panamanian isthmus for ...

We found no evidence of the canal being under China's control, as claimed by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Built and once controlled by the U.S., the canal is now owned by Panama, which charges ... Spanish and British initiatives to build a canal never got far. The French finally took up the project ...

who maneuvered a complex situation involving the French, the government of Colombia, and the Panamanian people to build the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is vital to free commerce and the ...

But it was not until 1878 that Colombia – which then counted Panama as a province – signed a concession with French ... US rights to build and indefinitely administer the canal.

After French Count Ferdinand de Lesseps failed to build a canal, the U.S. promoted Panama ... Jimmy Carter signed treaties transferring the canal to Panama on December 31, 1999. “Any attempt to ...

May 29, 1879: The French Attempt Two years after a ... is signed in the newly independent republic of Panama, giving the United States rights to build a canal on the Panamanian isthmus for ...

But it was not until 1878 that Colombia - which then counted Panama as a province - signed a concession with French engineers ... rights to build and indefinitely administer the canal.