The vast view still captures the wild frontier and fertileland that held so much promise for those who once sailed across the sea with only their dreams and treasured culture to guide them.
Secondly, Panama has become fertile ground for drug trafficking, money laundering and gang activity both on land and at sea and could potentially provide a haven for terrorist groups.
Add the amount of corn used in ethanol production, and you can visualize why there is a race forfertile farmland with the most dramatic example being the way private intermediate companies in Canada are furtively buying land to be settled by Chinese immigrants.