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This is a great article about a perspective of Panama’s history early on when the US presence was throughout the country.\u00a0 What a story and great pictures as well.<\/p>\n

BY MessyNessy<\/p>\n

I<\/strong><\/em>f I\u2019m honest, before coming to Panama, I really didn\u2019t know much about its murky 20th century history with the Americans. In fact, I remember rather swiftly passing over the subject in history class (I went to an American high school in London).\u00a0I wasn\u2019t aware\u00a0it was so recent and raw and that I\u2019d still find a\u00a0decaying\u00a0U.S. military footprint still so present throughout central Panama. And little did I know it was all about to become my new fascination when I landed myself on the doorstep of a prized\u00a0Panamanian artist\u00a0whose work and studio I\u2019d requested\u00a0to photograph one day\u2026<\/p>\n

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Isabel de Obaldia<\/strong><\/a> lives in a house that was left behind by a\u00a0Lieutenant of the U.S. military\u00a0\u2013 or was it a a sergeant? Anyway. Almost her\u00a0entire neighbourhood was built and occupied by U.S. military personnel not so long\u00a0ago; Isabel reminds me that the last Americans left as recently as 1999.\u00a0For almost 100 years, thousands of Americans lived a life of luxury in secluded tropical communities close to the Bay of Panama. Known as \u201cZonians\u201d (living\u00a0in what was known as the Canal Zone), they maintained one of the world\u2019s great engineering feats \u2013 the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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