Part One: How The U.S.A. Murdered Panama with Chelsea Manning
Behind the Bastards
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The Watermelon Riot
Bastardspot alumni, William Walker, had recently conquered nearby Nicaragua and declared it a slave state. This really freaked out people in Panama because they'd just been freed from slavery. All of these tensions boiled over in April 19th, 1856 into what came to be called the watermelon riot.
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