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What Does a 1964 Student Protest Tell Us About the Future of the Panama Canal?

As the Trump administration deepens its involvement in Venezuela, critics warn the US is slipping back into an old pattern of intervention in Latin America. Few places better illustrate what can follow than the history of the Panama Canal. Shortly after returning to office, President Donald Trump said the US would be “reclaiming” the Panama […]


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Trump’s Panama Canal Chaos

During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump talked a lot about pulling America out of international treaties and disentangling from military operations abroad. Once in office, he started talking about the idea of Manifest Destiny—that the expansion of the US was both justified and inevitable. In some cases that’s meant turning the tables on […]


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