Panama Canal

Political Cartoon Analysis

This cartoon shows the Panama Canal. This is shown through Roosevelt digging through Panama with U.S ships waiting behind him. The cartoonist's message on the event is that Roosevelt does not care about what anyone says and all that matters to him is digging his canal. You can see this in the determined expression on Roosevelt's face and how he is throwing the dirt onto the Colombian capital, Bogota. Some people may disagree with this and say that Roosevelt was very generous with how he dug the canal. This cartoonist used exaggeration. Exaggeration was used in the size of Roosevelt and the Colombian protesting. It depicts Roosevelt as a big, large figure and the Colombian as a weak, tiny figure. I agree with this as I also believe Roosevelt went a little far in trying to make the canal happen. He practically forced Panama to get rid of their Colombian rule just to get Panama to comply with him.