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So what’s up with the Canal expansion?
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Critics in 2006 were right in everything they said about the Panama Canal expansion project, which is now in tatters.
Bananama Republic (https://www.bananamarepublic.com/tag/expansion/)
Critics in 2006 were right in everything they said about the Panama Canal expansion project, which is now in tatters.
Don Winner breathlessly reports what anyone with half a brain has already known for five years at least: The Canal expansion project is a disaster.
The Panama Canal expansion will probably cost twice as much because the risk of earthquakes is actually much higher than any of these ACP bozos cared to admit.
While the Panamanians indulge in backward nationalism, their flag waving "corazon del universo" and "puente del mundo" crap, the Nicaraguans and their allies are cleverly planning to break Panama's faux monopoly.
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Nicolás Corcione Pérez Balladares and José A. Sosa Arango have a proven track record of dead construction workers and tens of millions of stolen dollars, so we think they are the perfect choice to govern the Panama Canal. But FRENADESO of course disagrees.
Last week was the pivoting point. The small support margin for the proposed Panama Canal expansion project disappeared and if a referendum would be held today, the proposal would be rejected. The pro-government newspapers have stopped publishing polls. There are protest marches in the streets by schoolteachers who demand decent pay for their work. The police quashes protests in the interior with tear gas when teachers march on the Panamerican Highway.