Seventeen nations in military exercise for the protection of the Panama Canal

Thursday, August 9th 2012 - 06:18 UTC

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This year’s PANAMAX exercise kicked off on Monday involving representatives from 17 hemispheric countries with the purpose of practicing methods of protecting the safe passage of commercial traffic through the Panama Canal while ensuring its neutrality and respecting national sovereignty. Read full article

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Frank
Good to see all the South American nations of any consequence attending.
Aug 09th, 2012 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
.... and I remember when the French and the British undertook the same practising of methods of protecting the safe passage of commercial traffic through the Suez Canal while ensuring its neutrality and respecting national sovereignty ;-(
Aug 09th, 2012 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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PirateLove
@2 yes, and we get the job done? HOOAHH the fact you remember is a lesson learnt to all backward south american tinpot ceespits
Aug 09th, 2012 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
#1 Aye right!
Aug 09th, 2012 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Simon68
Obviously a good training system, to have grown from 3 countries in 2003 to 17 in 2012.

It will be interesting to see who participates next year!!!
Aug 09th, 2012 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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