Question

Who is Theodore Roosevelt referring to when he says, "We were dealing with a government of irresponsible bandits"

Answer 1

“I took the isthmus, started the canal, and then left the congress-not to debate the canal, but to debate me. While the debate goes on, the canal does too and they are welcome to debate me as long as they wish, provided that we go with the canal,” Was Roosevelt’s reply to those accusing him of having an unconstitutional matter to the situation.

Answer 2

The people Theodore Roosevelt was referring to when he says, "We were dealing with a government of irresponsible bandits" were: The Colombians (Colombia).

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American politician conservationist, writer, naturalist, historian, and statesman who was elected as the 26th President of the United States of America in 1901.

Roosevelt was born on the 27th of October, 1858 in Hyde Park, New York, United States of America.

The Panama Canal was an artificial eighty-two (82) kilometers water-way that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean in Panama and it enhanced maritime trades.

During Theodore Roosevelt's tenure, the United States of America negotiated with the government of Colombia, so as to have the Canal Zone by offering $10 million for a fifty-mile strip across the Isthmus of Panama, thereby, enabling them to build the Panama Canal.

However, the government of Colombia refused the offer, which made Theodore Roosevelt refer to them as a government of irresponsible bandits.

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