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C. The hotel in Panama’s capital and largest city is managed by the Trump Organization, but it is owned by investors who are unhappy with its low occupancy rate. They want to hire another company to run the hotel. They have said the hotel’s poor revenue is partly because of President Trump’s unpopularity in Latin America.
B. Panama is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. With the support of the United States, Panama declared its independence from Colombia in 1903. Panama then gave the U.S. control over a zone where it would build a canal.
D. The king of Spain ordered a survey in 1534 to find a route for its treasure ships from Peru. There were many more proposals over the years, but France was the first to start construction of a canal. They began work in 1881 and ended in bankruptcy in 1889 after losing $287 million and 22,000 lives to disease and accidents.
A. An isthmus like Panama is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.