“我们没有送给中国”：特朗普总统重申收回巴拿马运河 - 2月 23日,2025年
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Many years ago, Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal. And Panama started the process of giving the Panama Canal, by the way, the most expensive development ever in the history of our country, relatively. It would have been $1.5 trillion in today's dollars. 38,000 people died from our country building the Panama Canal. They died from mosquitoes and snakes. Think of it.

They paid them five times their salary. They brought them to Panama, and they had a 25 percent chance of dying. They dug under nets so the mosquitoes wouldn't get them. But we lost 38,000, mostly men, laborers, construction workers, because it was such a harsh way to live. It was very brutal. They died. Thirty-eight thousand. Again, it was the most expensive thing we ever built. And they gave it away for $1 to Panama.

And last year, it made $5 billion. Also, it's one of the most successful projects ever built in terms of money, monetarily. And it's the eighth wonder of the world. It connects two oceans, with one being 16 feet higher than the other. Think of it. The Pacific and the Atlantic. Think of what that is. You're going through dikes and canals. Amazing what they did. It was really a wonder of the world. We gave it away for nothing. But we didn't give it to China.

We didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama. We're going to take back the Panama Canal.