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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 4004552, member: 80804&quot;]That&#039;s because until some time in the 70&#039;s (I believe, might have been early 80&#039;s), when it became an independent nation, it was a &quot;colonial&quot; holding of the US, similar to The Philippines, Guam, Marshall Islands, etc. Panama which had originally been a part of Colombia was &quot;calved-off&quot; in a leveraged deal in order for the US to have a firm grasp on the land on which the highly strategic, revolutionary and valuable Panama Canal was constructed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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