Tropical decay blights McCain’s Panama birthplace - Did you know he was born in Panama?

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Posted on: April 8th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Did You Know? ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Politics ] [ Election 2008 ]
“John McCain’s birthplace in Panama was an idyllic tropical posting for U.S. sailors that the Republican presidential candidate speaks fondly of but the Caribbean port has crumbled into poverty and decay.
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McCain was born in 1936 on the Coco Solo submarine base in a U.S.-run territory in Panama where his father was a Navy officer.

Now, children play next to open sewers in the town that was built around the base and large homes once inhabited by American service families lie abandoned and strewn with debris.”*

*From: http://www.boston.com
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