leaning on imagery regarding the Panama Canal provides just the right message. To understand the origins and power of these tropes, one must go back to the very founding of the Republic of Panama.
Failing to reach terms with Colombia to build a US canal, then US President Theodore Roosevelt sent gunships to Panama’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts to support calls for Panamanian independence.
President Trump wants Panama to return its namesake canal to the U.S. Panama’s ... In the age of gunboat diplomacy with former Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt as president, the U.S. engineered ...