If you check out the history of Nicaragua, you'll find that a strange character named William Walker decided to colonize an area in Nicaragua before Panama was chosen for the site of the canal. A web search will turn up everything you could want to know about him. His colony was even recognized by Pres. Franklin Pierce. Keep in mind that George Bush's maternal ancestors were Walkers and that Barbara Bush is a descendant of Pierce. As it turns out, Brown Brothers, Harriman (the Walker family investment business) had significant financial interests in Nicaragua. Skull and Bonesman Henry Stimson spent much time there trying to sort out the issue. My thought is that if you thoroughly examined the bonds that were issued to finance the Panama Canal, you'd probably find they were paid off in 1999, and that's why the canal was abandoned. Now the financiers are wanting to issue new bonds, so they'll build a new canal and make millions more in fees on the new bonds. This is just a guess. Linda Minor -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 06, 2000 4:09 PM Subject: [RuMills] Will Nicaragua Become the New Panama Canal? >Rumor Mill News Forum (read only link) > <A HREF="http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl">Rumor Mill News >Forum - Message Index</A> > >Pull up this article to read the "rest of the story!" > >Will Nicaragua Become the New Panama Canal? >Posted By: Rayelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thursday, 6 January 2000, at 4:03 p.m. > >Will Nicaragua Become the New Panama Canal? > >Back in the days of the Contras, Daniel Ortega, and the Boland Amendment, I >hung around with a looseknit group of reporters, journalists, investigators >and operatives. There were rumors going around, at the time, which gave a >different explanation for our involvement in Central America. > >In today’s paper, there was an article that makes me think that there may >have been something to those rumors. > >Rumor Version One: > >The Communists are planning to sabotage the Panama Canal and disrupt the >shipping lanes between the East and the West. With control of Nicaragua, they >will be able to use the Inland Waterways in Nicaragua to turn Nicaragua into >the New version of the Panama Canal. This way they can control commerce on a >world wide basis. > >Rumor Version Two: > >The United States has estimated that the amount of money needed to keep the >Panama Canal open and running would not be cost effective. The cost of >bringing it up to a condition which will keep it from self destructing in 30 >years, would be prohibitive. > >The 30 year self destruct date..... > >--------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > > GRAB THE GATOR! FREE SOFTWARE DOES ALL THE TYPING FOR YOU! >Tired of filling out forms and remembering passwords? Gator fills in >forms and passwords with just one click! Comes with $50 in free coupons! > <a href=" http://clickme.onelist.com/ad/gator4 ">Click Here</a> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor >
