Posted on 01/14/2014 7:28:00 AM PST by Theoria
I have a map of the survey made by the US Engineer office “Nicaragua Canal Survey 1929-1931” scale 1: 253,440.
The route Begins at Brito on the west on the Rio Grande and traverses east not far north of the Costa Rican Border, through Lake Nicaragua thence along the Rio SanJuan to just North of Grey Town. For much of the distance , the San Juan river is the international border.
What happened to the Monroe doctrine — is it still in the books?
I forgot — no nads to support or enforce it.
So the Free Trade Communists...who support Free Trade with Communist China...thought that by aiding the Communist Chinese financially...would mean they would give US companies contracts to work on the Chinese Canal in Panama?
The Chinese Canal in Panama is basically owned by the Communist Chinese....
Free Traders once again proving to be the most ignorant people on the planet....this nonsense is direct result of Free Trade Communists
Thanks Jimmy for giving Panama back to the "Panamanians" so that Latin America would finally start to love us.
Why the Colombians make a huge stink about that is hard to understand.
But wasn’t the original deal between the US and Panama, that the US would control the canal for something like 75 years, after which the US would relinquish control of the canal to Panama?
See # 26.
Look for Van Hallen's new hit, "Nicaragua"
The Monroe doctrine was never “on the books”. It was a foreign policy doctrine espoused by Monroe that was essentially the idea that the entire western hemisphere was an American sphere of interest and that European intervention in the Western Hemisphere would be opposed by the US. Obviously, Monroe lacked the power to implement this. There was still plenty of European intervention in the Western US, the Carribean, Alaska, and Latin America at that time. It became more of a reality after the Latin American countries gained independence, but even then was never really fully implemented, as the French invasion and occupation of Mexico in the 1860’s as well as Soviet actions in Cuba and Nicaragua attest.
My fury with Carter over this is tempered by the fact the Canal would have gone to Panama in 2002 if he had done nothing at all. We only had a 99-year lease on it.
This is very similar to Hong Kong, UK and China. Eventually Hong Kong was going to be repatriated to China no matter what the UK did.
First I’d heard about the option for another 99 years....
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html
Enjoy these live views of the canal.
If you pick the Miraflores Hires view, you can see the expansion canal to the far left.
The view is to the northwest towards the Atlantic(!?)
(some are surprised that the canal runs from the Atlantic souteast to the Pacific)
You’re correct = the “French Cut” was the abortive attempt pushed by De Lesseps. Col Goethals did an admirable job. “Path Between The Seas” by McCullough is a terrific story of how the Canal was built and the amazing advances in malaria and yellow fever control and treatment that came out of it by people like Dr. Gorgas. My daughter was born at Gorgas Army Medical Center in the old Canal Zone.
Thanks for the well-reasoned dissertation.
You forgot induced vomitting so one could do these things all over again.
On February 26, 1904, the Isthmian Canal Convention was proclaimed. In it, the Republic of Panama granted to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the canal.
source: Wikipedia (I know!)
Regards,
I believe with an option for another 99.
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