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Or politicians and activists who see in Trump the long history of U.S. conquest made flesh, who bristle at his threats to seize the Panama Canal and bomb fentanyl labs [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/latin-americas-new-right-ushers-in-pan-american-trumpism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/imperialist-fantasy-historian-greg-grandin-on-trump-threat-to-retake-panama-canal-invade-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/imperialist-fantasy-historian-greg-grandin-on-trump-threat-to-retake-panama-canal-invade-mexico/#respond Sun, 29 Dec 2024 16:15:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1277711 Donald Trump has set his sights on the Americas, threatening to retake the Panama Canal if Panama doesn’t lower fees for U.S. ships. The United States controlled the waterway until 1977, when President Jimmy Carter signed a landmark treaty to give Panama control of the canal. 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