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Trump's Talk of the Panama Canal Taps Into Old Myths About U.S. Power
President Theodore Roosevelt provided strategic military ... of the young republic—the territory that would become the Panama Canal Zone. Read More: Donald Trump Still Wants to Take Control ...
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Opinion: Yes, the Panama Canal was built at a dear price — paid in Black lives
The popular telling of the canal’s origin is a story of America’s technical prowess, of man’s triumph over nature and of the cunning of figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who supported Panama ...
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The Threat Behind Trump’s Praise of McKinley & Roosevelt
Work on the Panama Canal could now begin ... in his reverential invocations of presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Ted Snider is a columnist on U.S. foreign policy and history ...
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America’s Fraught, Sometimes Deadly, History With the Panama Canal
President Trump wants Panama to return its namesake canal to the U.S. Panama’s ... In the age of gunboat diplomacy with former Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt as president, the U.S. engineered ...
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Panama turned its canal into a money-maker. History shows why Trump’s threats are sounding the alarm bells
Failing to reach terms with Colombia to build a US canal, then US President Theodore Roosevelt sent gunships to Panama’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts to support calls for Panamanian independence.
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Trump: Panama will lose control of canal if it continues to ‘rip off’ US
The construction of the Panama Canal began in 1904 under President Theodore Roosevelt. The waterway was built to provide a speedy way to ship goods between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.