Bush is down there to announce another step in the 'integration of the hemisphere' deal. You'd think the man in the street would be thrilled, especially when he looks at the end result to come....free trade and free travel throughout the hemisphere. Come and go as you please. Whether the average American will be thrilled is another matter,(since we're dispensing with American sovereignty and control of our borders, etc.), but you'd think the South and Central American 'street' would be ecstatic. Idiots.
Hershey,
I really don’t know what is going on since I am on the outside. Neither does anybody else around me. What we think is happening is that it is really a show of force. We have Brazil and Venezuela in our back yard looking toward Panama. The message that President Bush is carrying (we think) is “keep your mitts off Panama. Don’t even look this way.”