Using the Trees to Understand the Forest: Evaluating the Risks of the Panama Canal Amplification Project

2 Resumen Ejecutivo (Executive Summary) 3 Introduction 4 The Existent Canal and Historic Expansion Attempts 5 The Tripartite Commission (1985-1993) Recommends New Locks 6 The Controversy over Law 44 7 The Campesino Coordinating Group against the Embalses 10 Social and Environmental Problems of Flooding 11 Technical Arguments against the Embalses 12 Words from the ACP 13 Pastoral Social-Caritas’s Critique of the ACP 15 Concerns of Foul Play 16 The Bigger Picture 17 Financial Concerns Unanswered 18 What Can Panama Hope to Gain? 20 Conclusion: ACP Has Explaining to Do 22 Works Cited 24 Works Consulted 27 Acknowledgements 30 Research Questions 30 Methodology 30