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Judi Lynn

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Mon Jan 9, 2012, 08:05 PM Jan 2012

Panama promises economic aid for participants in 1964 riots over US control of Panama Canal

Panama promises economic aid for participants in 1964 riots over US control of Panama Canal
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, January 9, 5:06 PM

PANAMA CITY, Panama — Panama is promising economic aid for protesters who participated in 1964 riots that many believe eventually spurred the U.S. to hand over control of the Panama Canal in 1999.

Foreign Minister Roberto Henriquez says the protesters “deserve this aid because they were the ones who really completed our independence.”

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The riots started when a group of Panamanian teenagers went to a U.S. school near the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone to hang a Panamanian flag.

Clashes ensued among Panamanian police, U.S. soldiers and protesters in which 23 demonstrators and four U.S soldiers died.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/panama-promises-economic-aid-for-participants-in-1964-riots-over-us-control-of-panama-canal/2012/01/09/gIQAXjbRmP_story.html?wprss=rss_world

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