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The background (＾▿＾)

The result of the Thousand Days' War was negative for Colombia, military spending occupied most of the income and were available money not had to finance the armies, which affected the smooth running of the country: they are stopped build hospitals, schools and transport routes.

Why Panama broke away? (＾▿＾)

The most serious of the Thousand Days' War consequence was the loss of Panama, where the United States saw the opportunity to build a canal to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. Panamanians feared above all the United States saw more feasible the construction of the canal in Nicaragua given the conditions of war who lived in Colombia, thus Panamanians decided not jeopardize the completion of the canal on their land and said separation Colombia, backed by the United States and his army.
and it was proclaimed an independent republic

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