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Fact checking Trump and anyone who supports his lying bullshit.
Donald Trump claim: Panama Canal construction left 38,000 Americans dead
“The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.”
There were multiple attempts to build the Panama Canal, the vital passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But while thousands of people died in these efforts, the toll of American deaths does not remotely approach 38,000 lives Trump claimed in his inaugural address.
Matthew Parker, author of “Hell’s Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal,” told the BBC that about 25,000 people died, many from mosquito-borne viruses, in the failed French attempt to build the canal in the 1880s. Parker said “virtually none” was American. Rather, they were largely French and Jamaican, he said.
During the U.S. period of construction from about 1904 to 1914, about 6,000 people died, Parker said in the BBC interview, “almost all of whom were from Barbados.” About 300 Americans died in this effort, he said.
Trump, echoing a claim from December, claimed in his inaugural address that China is operating the Panama Canal, which Panama has repeatedly disputed.
Trump has threatened to have the U.S. take back control of the canal because of what he called “exorbitant” rates charged for using the waterway, which the U.S. built and operated before a treaty transferred control to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999. The Panamanian government controls the canal through the Panama Canal Authority, an 11-member board that oversees the waterway’s maintenance and security.
Canal administrator Ricaurte Vásquez told The Associated Press that a Hong Kong consortium won a bid in 1997 that allows Chinese companies to operate in ports at the ends of the canal. But U.S. and Taiwanese companies also operate ports along the canal, which is open to commerce from all countries,
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2025/01/20/trump-panama-canal-inauguration-fact-check/77840452007/
Nothing I consider difficult? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal is out of water. Some global warming shit.
The ships that pass through the Panama canal are NOT American. The rarely carry USA made goods either.
China does not control the Panama canal.
China, like russia, seeks to expand its geopolitical sphere. Nothing the idiot american haven't done, or my Expires but we have did little of that in 6-0 years. Iran was our (UK) last foray. It was us (UK) who over threw the Iranian government, and also the American's. It was oil companies
The UK played a key role in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, which overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh. This coup, also supported by the United States, was motivated by concerns about Mosaddegh's nationalization of the oil industry and fears of Soviet influence.
I will give you as many cites as you like. I know BoscoX wont read them as he doesnt read his own ones, but you probably will. Odd I never noticed you on here before.
MJ when the UK, and I think France who built the Suez canal(not Panama) and Israel went to war over the Suez canal in In 1956, British and French forces, along with Israel, invaded Egypt in a conflict known as the Suez Crisis, primarily over the Suez Canal.
America swatted the UK, French and Israel over that?
< Message edited by wickedsdesires -- 4/30/2025 10:29:28 AM >
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