The Canal That Changed a Continent

The Panama Canal transformed global trade, but it also left a deep wound in Latin American sovereignty. In this episode, we reconstruct the story behind the route that joined the Atlantic and Pacific: the failed French attempt, U.S. pressure, Panama’s separation from Colombia in 1903, the Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty, construction between 1904 and 1914, and the human cost paid by thousands of migrant workers. A story about engineering, power, territory, and memory, from the Canal Zone to Panama’s full control of the canal in 1999.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.