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From the start, the project was plagued by difficulties. Rain, landslides, escalating costs, fraud, inadequate machinery, and the dread plagues of yellow fever and malaria doomed the project. All work stopped in 1889.

In 1904 the United States began the task of carving a canal through the isthmus. The engineering difficulties involved in cutting through the Isthmus of Panama were enormous. After years of digging and construction, and the expenditure of more than $300 million, the Panama Canal was officially opened in 1914.

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