The History of PanamaBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M05 30 - 153 páginas As the narrowest stretch of land in the Central American isthmus, Panama's geographical location has for millenia made it the crossroads for traders, travelers, European pirates, and world superpowers. Panamanian history is replete with explicit or tacit domination by others. In the post-Columbus period, Panama was first a Spanich colony, then a province of Colombia, and then finally a quasi-territory of the United States during the 20th century. Suffering invasion by the United States in 1989 to oust dictator Manuel Noriega and then receiving full ownership of the Panama Canal at the end of 1999, Panama has rebuilt itself into a strong, if contentious democracy. |
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... sovereignty " over the Panama Canal . Indignant at the patronizing statement and at not having been invited , as the home of the world's sixth - largest shipping fleet , Pan- ama's government issued a fiery public retort that the United ...
... sovereignty over the Canal Zone , increased payments , and , most importantly , a date for the U.S. turnover of the canal to Panama . But the train of progress ground to a halt later that year , held up by the Wa- tergate scandal and ...
... sovereignty under the guise of openness . The treaties were finally signed by President Carter and General Torrijos ... sovereignty over the canal . Most urban Panamanians enthusiastically supported the treaties in a national plebiscite ...
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Panama Is a Canal and More | 1 |
Colonial Panama to Independence | 11 |
Completing the Canal to World War II | 27 |
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