Panama Canal Research Paper

Throughout the years, The US government did more good than harm, they did the most for themselves. They ultimately failed to protect the US citizens. One incident, similar to the sinking of Lusitania, was the deadly Japanese kamikaze attack on the pearl harbor. In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, citizens were not a part of the war happening in Europe and were sweeping the country in the final days of the Great Depression. But when the Japanese kamikazes crashed into the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, all of that changed. This left the citizens of the united states shocked, one person that it did not shock was Franklin D Roosevelt. Franklin D Roosevelt knew this was going to happen, and it was the best way the government can get involved …show more content…
They invade smaller countries and give innocent people unfair punishments for benefits which will only help the US government. One of the unfair punishment was towards Panama. The United States wanted to gain and control the Panama Canal. Omar Torrijos was thinking otherwise. Torrijos refused to share the Panama canal. He stood up against Ronald Reagan and rejected the offer. Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981), more commonly known as Omar Torrijos, was the Commander of the Panamanian and National Guard and the de facto dictator of Panama from 1968 to …show more content…
It is a good way to make money as there are tolls enforced. The US government looked at the Canal as pure profit and did anything they can to gain control over it. Reagan claimed regarding the canal: "We built it, we paid for it, it's ours, and we should tell Torrijos and company that we are going to keep it."( Perkins 14). More Recently, former Hitman John Perkins states in his book “Confessions of An Economic Hit Man” that “Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is a global empire. We EHMs failed to bring Roldos and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in. “ ( Perkins 10) Torrijos was assassinated by American interests, who had a bomb planted aboard his aircraft by CIA-organized operatives. Torrijos experienced his own plane crash On July 31, 1981, after he declined the US offer. Perkins describes Torrijos as a typically dressed Panamanian but extremely well informed about world events and the role of the United States and the CIA in international affairs. That's why the US government killed him because he stood up against them and supported his people. The US government does not like that and punish

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