The construction of the fourth bridge over the Panama Canal is behind schedule, with only 17% to 18% of the work reportedly completed to date. Newsroom Panama has reported that Panama Minister of ...

Last week, the Panama Canal Board of Directors approved plans to build a dam to solve what it says is a long-term water shortage problem. Construction is expected to begin in 2027. The dam project ...

The construction also cost Panama decades of sovereignty. As Panamanian historian Marixa Lasso described in her book “Erased,” the canal was not built upon cleared virgin, uninhabited forest ...

Men are shown working on Panama Canal construction in 1913. - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Hopes of cutting through Central America to connect the world’s oceans date back to the early 16 th ...

The Panama Canal was built by the United States between 1904 and 1913, and opened in 1917. Building the canal cost about $375 million, making it the most expensive construction project in U.S ...

President Donald Trump says he wants the U.S. to take back control of the Panama Canal. The Canal has been dubbed the greatest engineering feat in human history. It's also (perhaps less favorably ...

“The Panama Canal is doing quite well,” Donald Trump ... sheepishly protested that construction occurred “one hundred years ago.” Panama cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan that week in ...

President Jimmy Carter views the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Locks in ... It soon signed a treaty allowing a U.S.-led team to begin construction. Some 5,600 workers died later during the ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which ... It soon signed a treaty allowing a U.S.-led team to begin construction. Some 5,600 workers died later during the ...

Julie Green, a history professor at the University of Maryland, also told PBS in 2014 that the Panama Canal was the “largest public construction project in U.S. history.” ...