Canal Zone Documentary · Jun 9, 2026

The Isthmus That Stayed

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An alternate history of a Panama that was never pried loose — and the country it might have become

PREFACE

A note before we begin.

While I was working through the history of the Canal Zone, a question crept in and wouldn’t leave: what if the canal had never been built in Panama? What if the United States had never stepped between the people of the Isthmus and Colombia? What would Panama’s story look like then?

So I followed the thread. I used Anthropic’…

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