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...tolls are increased and service deteriorates under Panamanian control, Latin American nations will be particularly damaged. Half of Ecuador's trade, 41% of Peru's and 77% of Nicaragua's moves through the canal. Accordingly, while these and other Latin American countries such as Colombia and Chile publicly supported U.S. cession of the canal, they conducted "back channel" talks with Washington to make sure that there would be American guarantees of uninterrupted operation...
...personal commitment to a new treaty I was a major in 1964, and the orders came to squeeze the [demonstrating] students between the U.S. military and the [Panamanian] guard, and I was ashamed. We used sticks on children. And I could do nothing. I began to think. I decided to do something for my people, to lead the decolonization of Panama...
...Panamanian support for the treaty I shall ask every person to vote, to express himself on the new treaty. We already have begun the massive registration of every Panamanian. It is true that I would prefer a generation of Castristas [Castro-types] to a generation of castrados [castrated ones]. They may vote no, but I want them to vote. I have faith that my people will vote for the right thing...
...Panamanian diplomat was said to be so upset when he learned of the original U.S. canal treaty that he punched his country's envoy to Washington, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, in the face. Secretary of State John Hay wrote to a U.S. Senator: "You and I know very well how many points there are in this treaty to which a Panamanian patriot could object...
Could?and did. The treaty was pushed along by the big stick of Teddy Roosevelt, whose roughriding diplomacy virtually ensured long-smoldering resentment. As noted only last year in a Panamanian-made documentary film, The Treaty No Panamanian Signed, Roosevelt's Administration received inside help from Envoy Bunau-Varilla, who was not a Panamanian but a Frenchman. Bunau-Varilla, it turned out, was less interested in the well-being of the newborn country than in the realization of his years-old dream: completion of the canal...