"I think it (the canal) is 100 percent Panama, yeah, and it should stay ... Canal construction was started in 1881 by French ...

Latin American leaders on Monday rallied to Panama's defense after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reimpose U ...

Panama was a province under Colombia. The French’s effort ultimately failed in 1899. An estimated 22,000 workers lost their lives to diseases and accidents working on the canal project.

Climate change is causing drought conditions that are making the Panama Canal harder to operate and more expensive to pass ...

The Battle to Build the Panama Canal." It is possible that Trump is conflating the lives lost during the US push to build the waterway with an earlier, failed effort by France. The French project ...

Few took the president-elect’s combative comments at face value, but they still sent a shudder through a country that the ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says ... Trump has also repeatedly talked about the U.S. annexing Canada or acquiring the Panama Canal, signaling growing interest in territorial ...

But it was not until 1878 that Colombia – which then counted Panama as a province – signed a concession with French ... disease and accidents. In 1903 the US sought a permanent concession for ...

But it was not until 1878 that Colombia - which then counted Panama as a province - signed a concession with French ... disease and accidents. In 1903 the U.S. sought a permanent concession for a ...