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Panama Canal fence
The Panama Canal fence was a barrier built by the United States, dividing the Canal Zone from the rest of the Republic of Panama.
Under a treaty of 1904, the United States had undertaken to build and maintain the canal in exchange for permanent rights over it. By 1960, this colonial-style arrangement was becoming unacceptable to the Panamanians, and President John F. Kennedy planned to allow the flag of Panama to be flown beside the Stars and Stripes outside public buildings, but was assassinated before he could enact the measure. In the confusion that followed, there were demonstrations by students and schoolchildren, often involving the desecration of flags.
On January 9, 1964, angry crowds formed along the Canal fence. At several points demonstrators stormed into the zone, planting Panamanian flags and began to tear down the "Fence of shame" 〔McPherson, Alan L. "From "Punks" To Geopoliticians: U.S. and Panamanian Teenagers and the 1964 Canal Zone Riots". The Americas - Volume 58, Number 3, January 2002, pp. 395-418 ()〕〔The beginning of the end of the Panama Canal Zone, by Eric Jackson, 28 December 1999 ()〕 creating gaps in front of the US District Court and several other spots along the fence. Canal Zone police tear gassed them and several were shot for pulling or climbing on the fence.
The opinion of most Panamanians (and most Latin Americans generally) about the fence in question was expressed a few days later by Colombia's ambassador to the Organization of American States: "In Panama there exists today another Berlin Wall."〔La República, (Bogota, Colombia), January 20, 1964.〕
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