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politics of the panama canal

During the Spanish-American War the warship Oregon was summoned from the West Coast. The trip took two months to travel 14,000 miles around Cape Horn to the Atlantic. (The American Journey 741) How was the United States supposed to defend it shores if it took ships that long to get between them? The United State had to build a canal through Central America; national security depended on it.The Politics of the Panama Canal are confusing. This confusion includes the building, the economics and the operation of this facility. The canal, began in 1881 and finished in 1914(Dolan 55), has caused one country to fail, another to triumph, and another to gain its independence.There was a need for a canal through the isthmus of Central America. The big question was who would step up and build it. France had just lost the Franco-Prussian War against Germany. The country felt that it had lost some prestige in eyes of other nations. There seemed only one certain way to restore its glory, undertake and complete the most challenging engineering feat in history. Build a canal through Central America and link the world's two greatest oceans. (Dolan 53)The French chose Panama to build its canal because it was far narrower than Nica


Bibliography Works CitedCrane, Phillip F: Surrender in Panama, the Case Against the Treaties. South Western Company, 1994The Second Decade: Panama at the Canal Treaties. They bought land from the nation's rich land owning families. And when Panama took control of the canal it was free to employ Americans. The Panamanian democratic opposition formed a new government led by President Guillermd Endum. (Dolan 140)Facing a rapidly deteriorating situation, President Bush ordered U. The question of sovereignty over the canal aroused deep passions, which came to boil in 1964 with massive rioting by Panamanians, a response to U. By 1970 they exceeded $100 million. New York: Simon a Schuster, 1977McNeese, Tim.

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