Talk:History of Panama

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Biased in favour of U.S., particularly with respect to invasion (the word is not mentioned). Rewrite for more NPOV? --Daniel C. Boyer

ALMOST EVERY history page in Wikipedia is rediculously partisan in favour of US empire, apart from those that have undergone radical change from their original versions. Then again this not surprising when you consider that they are all based on articles writen by the CIA! I don't know whose bright idea this was, but it makes the writing of a pages about the history and politics of any given country an uphill struggle in removing the propaganda, misdirection and outright lies on every CIA written page AW

I can't tell you what much I agree with you. --Daniel C. Boyer 14:40 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Wikipedia biased in favor of the "U.S. Empire," that's rich. I'd have to say the opposite.

And I gotta say it's funny how Noriega's a bad, dictatorial guy when he's giving us some support in the Contra War, but when we kick his ass out it's just another eeeevil CIA plot (chronicled in the CIA's pages of lies) Trey Stone 09:09, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I must disagree: the piece comes off as very anti-U.S. Not a word is said about the economic benefits that the U.S. relationship brought to the country: Nicaragua was a serious alternative for an Atlantic-Pacific canal. Financed and engineered by the United States, the canal is a permanent source of income for this country. At the end of a 99-year lease the U.S. turned over the canal and associated canal zone - complete with an airport, paved roads, power plants, medical facilities, houses, office buildings, and various other improvements worth many millions of U.S. dollars (an expense for which the United States requested no compensation) - and the only benefit the U.S. still gets from the relationship is that its government ships cross the canal at half price. Durova 18:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Torrijos 2 Rebuilding Democracy? 3 Post 1500s 4 Blacks before Colombus

[edit] Torrijos

I find it very interesting that the word "death" is used instead of "murder" or "assassination" to describe the end of Torrijos. RanDomino

[edit] Rebuilding Democracy?

No mention that Endara took office in a US military base. ALl the information provided seems to be put into the article to justify US invasion of Panama.

You are probably right that "Rebuilding Democracy" sounds a bit too triumphalistic. Maybe a more neutral title for that section would be "Institutions after Noriega" or "Political processes after Noriega". The fact that Endara took office in a US military base should be mentioned although that in itself does not invalidate the fact that he would (according to most accounts) have been the winner in the election earlier that year. Please edit the article to make it more neutral, but with facts that you can support with references.--CSTAR 03:14, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Post 1500s

The title of this section should be more descriptive; e.g., "The Spanish Colonial Period" (Caps used for consistency). J. Peterka 23:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Done! J. Peterka 19:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blacks before Colombus

What about Lopez de Gomara and Peter Martyr d'Anghiera accounts of the presence of Negroes in the area?

The Spaniards found negro slaves in this province.[4] They only live in a region one day's march from Quarequa, and they are fierce and cruel. It is thought that negro pirates of Ethiopia established themselves after the wreck of their ships in these mountains. The natives of Quarequa carry on incessant war with these negroes. Massacre or slavery is the alternate fortune of the two peoples.

[Note 4: This mysterious fact has been asserted by too many authors to be refused credence. The author's explanation of the existence of these Africans in America is possibly the correct one.]

from The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera translated by MacNutt, Francis Augustus.

This might be related to Chihab Al-Umari's mention of Abubakari II's journey, even though it is rather speculative. --moyogo 04:18, 8 December 2006 (UTC)