The Guevera Canal? (fwd, FYI)

January 29th, 2009

Part of the treaty Carter signed with Panama contains a stipulation that the
US government will not attempt to build a canal through Nicaragua. I am not
sure what time limit – if any – exists on that clause. So obviously a lot of
people have given thought to the idea. Maybe TRoosevelt couldn’t steal
Nicaragua “fair and square.”

>My apologies to Che’, if I have misspelt his name. 🙂
>
>Over on CONSIM-L, we are having a lively discussion about whether or
> not the Soviets were ever thinking about building the canal through
> Nicaragua (eventually) and the strategic implications/consequences
> of that. (You’ll never guess who raised the issue. 🙂 )
>
>Someone has said there was even a SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN on the alternative
> Nicaragua canal … although it was assuming *we* would be building it,
> of course.
>
>Lou Coatney, mslrc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>
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