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...project--which voters look set to approve in an Oct. 22 referendum--may not compare with the big dig that created the canal a century ago, but Torrijos insists it is no less urgent, both for international shipping and Panama's development. "My dad solved the struggle for ownership," Torrijos told TIME. "My generation's challenge is to make better economic and social use of this geographical position history...
...Central America. Serious doubts about income redistribution are a big reason that only 22% of respondents to a recent poll said they thought the expansion would bring real economic benefits to Panama and its population of 3.2 million. Some 64% of Panamanians said they support the project. "The past," Torrijos admits, "is haunting our future. It's a weight on this referendum...
...Pacific side. Each new channel would hold three-step locks 180 ft. wide, compared with 110 ft. for the existing locks, and they would have massive water-recycling basins, which preclude the need to dig new reservoirs, which many had feared would displace thousands of farms and homes. The project would create as many as 7,000 direct jobs and more than 40,000 indirect jobs at home. Companies such as Bechtel, ABB and the French contractor Bouygues are expected to bid for the project...
...disappears from my view but is not finished. When he returns, he begins a construction project in my living room...
...election, an almost sure sign that if he wins, he intends to dissolve and re-create Ecuador's legislature in his own populist image. Like Chavez, "Correa is converting his [organizational] weaknesses into virtues and, under the guise of democracy, he'll fashion a Congress favorable to his political project," says Ramiro Crespo, president of the Quito investment bank Analytica Securities...