Why did the United States encourage Panama’s declaration of independence from Colombia?

Colombia had raised the price for the rights to build the Panama Canal

Explanation:

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation:

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