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2024-12-23 15:05:04 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 48F5A9AC20391E99A82B07AA1928099E2215BEBE70EDC3DB2804562412D8C5F5
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It's true that between 25000 and 35000 workers died during the construction of the Panama Canal, but many of them were not Americans (not U.S. citizens). Moreover, 20000 of these deaths occurred during the French attempt to build the canal https://elfarodelcanal.com/en/ethnic-groups-contribution-to-the-panama-canal/#:~:text=According%20to%20SAAMAP%2C%20%E2%80%9Cit%20is,Barbadians%20and%20495%20Saint%20Lucians%E2%80%9D. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/panama-canal-working-panama-canal/
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