Stalin
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It should be no surprise that the colonial tragedy that is the Panama Canal is deeply rooted in the rapist's psyche
Not for the first time. trumpf is linked to dirty money.
"When Roosevelt assumed the presidency in 1901, Panama still belonged to Colombia, but the negotiations between the Colombian government and the US over the proposed canal proved less than smooth. And voila: the new nation of Panama was thus born in 1903, midwifed by Roosevelt and more than thrilled to cede a chunk of its territory as well as national sovereignty to the US.
As John Weeks and Phil Gunson put it in their book Panama: Made in the USA, the country was “carved out of the heart of Latin America to serve the objectives of a foreign power”. And to this day, Panama bears the scars of the carving. One prominent Panama City thoroughfare is still named after Roosevelt, although Fourth of July Avenue has been renamed Martyrs’ Avenue in honour of the victims of the January 1964 flag riots. On that particular occasion, US forces killed some 21 people after Panamanian students attempted to raise their flag next to the US one at a Canal Zone high school.
As it so happens, Trump has his own connection to the Panama City landscape in the form of a waterfront luxury condo that was formerly branded the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower and is still referred to locally as “the Trump” despite the elimination of his surname from the sign. In 2017, NBC reported that the Trump Organization had licensed its name to the 70-storey building, which was “riddled with ties to drug money and international organized crime”.
That said, it’s not like Panama is an issue that has ever kept Trump up at night. Rather, the sudden threats to recuperate the Panama Canal are simply of piece with the president-elect’s “America First” approach to riling his fan base into a delirium of pompous entitlement – all with the help of hallucinated affronts to US “generosity”.
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panama
Not for the first time. trumpf is linked to dirty money.
"When Roosevelt assumed the presidency in 1901, Panama still belonged to Colombia, but the negotiations between the Colombian government and the US over the proposed canal proved less than smooth. And voila: the new nation of Panama was thus born in 1903, midwifed by Roosevelt and more than thrilled to cede a chunk of its territory as well as national sovereignty to the US.
As John Weeks and Phil Gunson put it in their book Panama: Made in the USA, the country was “carved out of the heart of Latin America to serve the objectives of a foreign power”. And to this day, Panama bears the scars of the carving. One prominent Panama City thoroughfare is still named after Roosevelt, although Fourth of July Avenue has been renamed Martyrs’ Avenue in honour of the victims of the January 1964 flag riots. On that particular occasion, US forces killed some 21 people after Panamanian students attempted to raise their flag next to the US one at a Canal Zone high school.
As it so happens, Trump has his own connection to the Panama City landscape in the form of a waterfront luxury condo that was formerly branded the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower and is still referred to locally as “the Trump” despite the elimination of his surname from the sign. In 2017, NBC reported that the Trump Organization had licensed its name to the 70-storey building, which was “riddled with ties to drug money and international organized crime”.
That said, it’s not like Panama is an issue that has ever kept Trump up at night. Rather, the sudden threats to recuperate the Panama Canal are simply of piece with the president-elect’s “America First” approach to riling his fan base into a delirium of pompous entitlement – all with the help of hallucinated affronts to US “generosity”.
Donald Trump and the great Panama Canal tantrum
The incoming president wants to punish Panama for failing to appreciate ‘the extraordinary generosity’ of the US.
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panama