A look at the human toll of the construction of the Panama Canal

This week, we’re sharing an episode from our friends at Code Switch. President Donald Trump says he wants the U.S. to take back control of the Panama Canal. The Canal has been dubbed the greatest engineering feat in human history. It's also (perhaps less favorably) been called the greatest liberty mankind has ever taken with Mother Nature. So how did we get here? Today on the show, we're talking to Cristina Henríquez, the author of the novel, "The Great Divide." Her book explores the making of the Canal. It took 50,000 people from 90 different countries to carve the land in two — and the consequences of that extraordinary, nature-defying act are still echoing through our present. You can

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A look at the human toll of the construction of the Panama Canal is an episode from La Brega by Futuro Media.

This episode is 34:47 long.

This episode was published on Apr 14, 2026.

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