William C. Gorgas to his staff as they performed an autoosy on a Panama Canal construction worker in 1905. “It’s the last case of yellow fever you’ll ever see. There’ll be no more deaths ...

Trump’s threat occurs as Panama became an elected member of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term in ...

President Donald Trump has called for the US to retake control of the Panama Canal unless the cost of passage for naval and merchant ships is slashed. Trump’s refusal to rule out the use of force is a ...

massive Hong Kong-registered ship inched its way through the churning waters of the Panama Canal — guided by tugboats stern and aft, and sweating Panamanians hoisting yellow ropes to latch onto ...

PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend visit to Panama is set to offer clues to a pressing question: whether the next four years ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 years after the canal was returned to Panama by the US — the Panama Canal ...

who built Egypt’s Suez Canal. But the conditions were harsh, and diseases like malaria and yellow fever killed many of the workers. The project was suspended in 1889 after money ran out and an ...

As United States President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term on Monday, he repeated his wishes to acquire the Panama Canal and rename the Gulf of Mexico in his inaugural speech. Trump has ...

Malaria, yellow fever and other tropical diseases devastated ... the “Permanent Neutrality Treaty” and the “Panama Canal Treaty.” The first, which continues in perpetuity, gives the ...

President Donald Trump is a man with a plan for the canal, namely to force Panama to limit China’s influence on the vital 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific or risk the United ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber ... with disaster after scores of workers died from yellow fever and malaria amid allegations of financial ...