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15 Impressive Facts About the Panama Canal

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national, multi-decade project to link two oceans and transform global shipping. After ...
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Trump wants to reclaim the Panama Canal. He’d be taking on a waterway facing crisis

The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering. This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is an artery of world trade and ...