Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas visits Panama, which was home to Cuna, Choco, Guaymi and other indigenous peoples.

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The Panama Canal stands as one of humanity’s most astonishing engineering achievements, reshaping global transportation and influencing world history like few other projects. This colossal feat ...

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Foreign Relations. Roosevelt believed the construction of the canal would be one of the nation's greatest achievements: “To my mind this building of the canal through Panama will rank in kind ...

In February, the BBC reported that the China Railway Tunnel Group Co. is building an extension to the Panama City Metro under the south side of the canal. The French started construction of the ...

The U.S. completed construction of the canal in the early 20th century but signed treaties handing it over to Panama in 1977 in response to political pressure and unrest in Panama over U.S. ownership.