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The Panama scandals was a corruption affair that broke out in the French Third Republic in 1892, linked to a French company's failed attempt at constructing a Panama Canal. Close to half a billion fra
A caricature on the scandal. It reads: "Few new toys this year: we're liquidating everything that remains of the stock of marionnettes that say: Papa, -Nana, -Mama, -Panama."
1891 Panama Canal Company Liquidation Court Trial in Paris, France
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The Panama Canal is an artificial 82-kilometer waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It cuts across the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit
Panama scandals
…Affair) was a corruption affair that broke out in the French Third Republic in 1892, linked to a French company's failed attempt at constructing a Panama Canal. Close to half a billion francs were lost and members of the French government had taken bribes to keep quiet about the Panama Canal Company's financial…
Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French originator of the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal
Part de Fondateur of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique de Panama, issued 29 November 1880
United States President Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909), the driving force behind US construction of the Panama Canal.
The US's intentions to influence the area (especially the Panama Canal construction and control) led to the separation of Panama from Colombia in 1903.