El Canal de Panamá lo empezaron los franceses cuando Panamá era de Colombia

Ferdinand de Lesseps, the same engineer who designed the Suez Canal, arrived in the Isthmus in 1881 convinced he could open it at sea level, without locks, as he had done in the Egyptian desert. Eight years later, after 19,000 workers and thousands of malaria deaths, the French company went bankrupt. The Americans inherited the project and conquered what the French never could: the mosquitoes. Javeriana Estéreo 91.9 FM Bogotá - Official Page