It’s been a long term issue in Mexico. Getting products from the Atlantic side to the pacific side.
Gary Saavedra surfed all the way across the Panama canal in 2011
doing the same across Mexico may be impossible
The war of 1,000 days
The hate is real.
He had help.
Ok that makes sense. Civil War? The conservative federalists won right?
I’m just skimming over the wiki but it’s oddly kind of similar to the Mexican Revolution in some ways, with the people who wanted a more federal structure fighting the ones who wanted it more centralized like France. Then all of Northern South America got drug into the chaos.
Their army certainly would have been battle hardened at the time fighting such a brutal conflict.
Gonna have to find a good book on this.
pretty sure thats not true. Many hispanic people in TX, NM, AZ and CA did not immigrate here, the US moved to them.
Otherwise, I would care about it if Mexico wasn’t basically a giant drug cartel. The Mexican government basically… isn’t
1920 Hispanics made up about 10% of Texas population
2020 Hispanics made up about 40% of Texas population
Actually, that would be more likely and not particularly impractical.
A net income of $3.45 billion this year (up 9.5% from last year.) That sounds profitable to me.
Nah. We engineers love a challenge. 
The real nightmare would be in getting the environmental permits. 
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None of that is true. We were instrumental in completing the original canal, but not the updated one. Most of the shipping through it is not US owned. Our economy would suffer if it were closed but would not particularly improve if we owned it. And Jimmy Carter did not give it away, he negotiated a treaty ceding US governance of the canal zine the roots of which began with riots against the US in January, 1964, regarding Panamanian sovereignty of their own country.
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The new locks are large enough (1401’x180’) to accommodate the Nimitz hull, but the deck width (252’) is too big. I don’t know of any other Naval vessels that can’t get through the locks.
Relatively few ships have been built that won’t fit in the new Panama locks. In fact, the size of the locks determines the size of vessels unless (as with the largest supertankers) they are specifically built for routes that do not go through the canal. For example, the Panamax container ships were 965’x106’ to exactly fit through the original locks. The new Panamax ships are 1200’x168’ to exactly fit through the new locks. The two largest cruise ships ever built, the Icon of the Seas and the Utopia of the Seas, can fit through the Panama Canal.
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54-40 or fight!
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Jesus tap dancing Christ…have we gone back in time?
and? big families
should have conquered them long ago
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That’s a little soft, Samm. We gotta go 64 40 this time. Maybe 74.
we need a land route to Alaska and the English speaking people there.
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