The former American zone has turned dystopian, and now China is making moves. For the Americans who live in Panama ... who designed the canal’s brilliant lock system; and sanitation officer ...
More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...
His replacement, John Stevens, lasted just 20 months, but oversaw the engineering of the canal's lock system and restructuring of the Panama Railroad -- two hurdles critical for the project's success.
They deem a Panama canal too expensive and propose a canal in Nicaragua with 12 locks ... rail system proves incapable of carrying that amount of spoil away. The first worker during the American ...
Panama’s President Raúl Mulino criticized as an “intolerable” falsehood the US State Department’s claim that the Central ...
WASHINGTON — A top Senate Republican accused Panama Tuesday of violating the treaty giving the Central American ... the canal zone by force. A cargo ship sails through the Agua Clara Locks ...
pro-American president that Washington would normally embrace. Now, he finds himself leading the resistance to President Trump’s threat to take over the Panama Canal. Mulino was brought up in ...
A cargo ship in one of the locks of the Panama Canal. (Arnulfo Franco/AFP/Getty Images) In his speech, Trump said the U.S. will attempt to ... s claims are that American ships are being ...
They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.
Buckley, Jr., the patron saint of the modern conservative movement, broke with Reagan and supported returning the canal to Panama. Yet Reagan, like Trump, understood the American interest in the ...
A French attempt to build ... from Colombia, Panama’s hands were tied. The US imported workers to build the canal from across the Caribbean. An ingenious system of locks designed by the US ...