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Yes. I am American yet i do believe that we stole Panama from Colombia. The french were in panama (which was then partmof colombia) and tried to build the canal. They were unsuccessful though, so they went to the US for help. Teddy Roosevelt offered $40 million to Colombia but they rejected it, so clearly they didnt want it to be done in their terriory. The US sent troopsmto Panama and convinced the naiive Panama natives that they had to revolt. With france, the US brainwashed Panama into believing it was true. There was a panama "uprising" of colonbia that only had the support of less than 50 people. The US surounded the Colombian coast with large naval fleets and forced Colombia to give it up. Colombia did not have a good army or navy so they werent able to do anything about it. Now in control, Teddy started building the canal. he never cared about helping make panama indepemdent, all the US wanted was money. So yeah, we stole it from colombia. And then, to be "benevolent" and to "compensate" for colombias's loss, we gave them about $25 million. Panama had never thiught of revolting until we stepped in eith selfish intentions. and Colombia never wanted to give it up, but they were too weak. so basically, yeah we stole the canal from Colombia

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