O Panama! The UN is calling on Line 1!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The row over whether Guatemala or Venezuela would get the Security Council seat has apparently been settled by choosing Panama for the task. (link)

[Silent Hunter]

50 rounds of voting? They couldn't decide at all.

Let's see how Panama does.

[WMS]

I will now commence my snickering at Hugo Chavez's wasted effort.

*does so*

[Colin]

Why does Hugo Chavez have to make everything so complicated? He's like BRTD, he only likes to muck things up.

[John Dibble]

Well, I've got no known objections to Panama, so it seems a good route to go.

[Colin]

Well, I've got no known objections to Panama, so it seems a good route to go.

I would actually call it a victory for the Americans in the UN. Not only did they stop Chavez from taking a seat in the Security Council but also got a relatively pro-US, pro-free market, country into the Council as a compromise.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Shame Panama isn't in NAFTA

[True Democrat]

Shame Panama isn't in NAFTA

Well, they would have to move their country a couple of thousand miles North to do that. . .

[Colin]

Shame Panama isn't in NAFTA

Well, they would have to move their country a couple of thousand miles North to do that. . .

Panama is the Southern-most country in North America.

But it should really join CAFTA. 

[True Democrat]

Shame Panama isn't in NAFTA

Well, they would have to move their country a couple of thousand miles North to do that. . .

Panama is the Southern-most country in North America.

But it should really join CAFTA. 

Well I believe technically only half of Panama could join NAFTA.  Isn't the line between North and South America at the canal (or more properly the isthmus)?

[AuH2O]

Huge defeat for Chavez. What a clown. He's no Castro, not by a long shot.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Shame Panama isn't in NAFTA

Well, they would have to move their country a couple of thousand miles North to do that. . .

Panama is the Southern-most country in North America.

But it should really join CAFTA. 

Well I believe technically only half of Panama could join NAFTA.  Isn't the line between North and South America at the canal (or more properly the isthmus)?

Depends on how you define "North America".  The most expansive definition includes all of Panama.  Panama itself lies on the Caribbean Plate with the boundary with the South American plate lying along the Darién Gap whicjh lies along the Panama/Colombia border.  Given the impassible nature of the Gap (there is no road connecting Panama and Colombia) and the political boundaries, I consider Panama to be solidly North American or Central American if you consider CA to be distinct from NA instead of part of NA.