‘We Dug It, We Own It’

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‘We Dug It, We Own It’
New American Prophet ^ | January 4, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 01/04/2025 7:27:56 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani

In 1978, the Carter administration made a deal with General Omar Torrijos, the uniformed socialist strongman who had seized power in Panama, to abandon America’s crown jewel.

The Panama Canal had been built with over a decade of labor and half a billion of early twentieth century dollars by American engineers and visionaries who succeeded where the British and the French had failed, in the process they created a new country, Panama, and new trade routes.

Jimmy Carter had run for office promising to oppose a surrender of the canal. As with most of his policies, he turned out to have been lying.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: china; jimmycarter; panamacanal

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