The U.S. government managed the Panama Canal for decades after it was completed in the early 20th century.Credit...Associated Press After a failed attempt by the French to construct a canal ...

Trump recently claimed 35,000 or 38,000 "American men" died building the Panama Canal between 1904 and 1914. And while thousands of lives were indeed lost during construction to malaria, yellow ...

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

which was the most expensive US building project when it was completed. Trump asserts that the canal should never have been handed to Panama and claims that is is now “being operated by China”.

The Panama Railroad, built by the US in the 1850s, paved the way for the Panama Canal but it was the French attempt at building a canal in the 1880s that first disrupted Panama’s close ties to its ...