Expanding the Panama Canal: Progress or More Conquest?
It stands as a colossal reminder. It is the other “ideal,” but historically tragic, engineering feat built to memorialize and honor those who scaled fences around the then-U.S. controlled Panama Canal Zone only to be brutally shot to death and murdered. While condemning conquests and imperialism, it evokes the “long resistance” and the memory and lives of thousands whose blood was shed in defense of their traditional lands. Even now, as the Panamanian government announces that it wants to expand the Panama Canal, known as the strategic water highway that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, will its thirst for new economic growth and increased trade lead to progress or simply more…
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Expanding the Panama Canal: Progress or More Conquest?
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