Oh by the way, if the canal gets built at Nicaragua (and it was only a minor volcanic eruption from a volcano on an island in Lake Nicaragua that frightened the Americans into building at Panama, not Nicaragua), Panama stays a part of Colombia. The Pan Am Highway gets finished all the way across the Darien Gap. Possibly a railroad gets built from Bogota to Panama and David and Costa Rica. So we also have inter-American land communication all the way from the US border to Buenos Aires. How does THAT affect timelines?