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The Independence of the Isthmus of Panama: Its Antecedents, Causes and Justification is a pamphlet published in late 1903 by the Panama Star and Herald newspaper in Panama City. The purpose of the pamphlet was to justify with arguments from history the breakaway of Panama from Colombia, which had occurred in the course of the year. In January 1903 the representative of the Colombian government in Washington, Tomás Herrán, and John Hay, the United States secretary of state, signed a treaty giving the United States the right to build a ...