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Dark History of the Panama Railroad – A Deadly Path to Progress
The Panama Railroad was meant to revolutionize travel, offering a faster route to the California Gold Rush, but its ...
Chinese sweat and blood – not soldiers – have left their mark on Panama Canal
Donald Trump stokes fears about Beijing’s influence in Panama, but thousands of Chinese gave their lives to build canal and ...
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The Ship Railway Plan
Each was competing to build a canal ... giving lectures from California to Boston on the railway's advantages over a canal in either Nicaragua or Panama. His arguments were compelling: a canal ...
Opinion: Yes, the Panama Canal was built at a dear price — paid in Black lives
Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, ...
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15 Impressive Facts About the Panama Canal
The Panama Railroad, when it opened in 1855, became the primary transportation route across the isthmus. After building the Suez Canal, French engineers tried to do the same thing in Panama.
I know the Panama Canal well – here’s why Trump wants it
When I first travelled to Panama City in 2012, the big real estate story – in a town obsessed with real estate – was the ...
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Chinese sweat and blood – not soldiers – have left their mark on Panama Canal
when workers from China arrived to build the Panama Railway and later the canal. For over six decades, they shed sweat and blood – and thousands paid with their lives – to build the projects ...