Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XII. Central America

Collection:: Economics Books

CENTRAL AMERICA 143 the south by Colombia, and the west by the Pacific Ocean. Through its center is a strip of land stretch ing five miles on either side of the Panama Canal for a distance of 45 miles and known as the Canal Zone. By the Isthmian Canal Convention of November 18, 1903, the United States acquired a perpetual right of occupa tion, use and control over the Zone, paying the Republic of Panama the sum of $10,000,- 000, and, beginning February 26, 1913, the sum of $230,000 annually so long as such oc cupancy continues. The Canal Zone is gov erned by the President of the United States. The population of this strip during the build ing of the canal was as high as 70,000, but it is doubtful if it has 30,000 inhabitants to-day. With the completion of the Canal, the force of workmen necessary to maintain it in running order, together with civilian employes and the United States garrison, will make a per manent population of perhaps 25,000. British Honduras, with an area of 7562 square miles and a population of 40,000, is the

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