Panama History Borgmeyer 1 Running Head: History of Panama Panama History Traci Borgmeyer January 17, 2004 INS323 Professor Posko Panama History Borgmeyer 2 Panama Panama historically has had closer ties with the United States than any country in Latin America other than Mexico. The country is known best for the Panama Canal, which the United States built for both military and trade purposes at the start of the 20th century. The United States maintained sovereignty over parts of Panama …showed first 75 words of 1396 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1396 total…and they became known as cimarrones (singular form is cimarrón), which means wild or unruly. They received this reputation because they attacked travelers along the Camino Real. The Library of Congress (1997) reports that "An official census of Panama City in 1610 listed 548 citizens, 303 women, 156 children, 146 mulattoes, 148 Antillean blacks, and 3,500 African slaves." Panama History Borgmeyer 6 REFERENCES Library of Congress. (1997). Panama. Retrieved on January 13, 2004 from: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+pa0013).