Dec 29, 2024 · Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and most overshadowed, foreign policy...

Dec 30, 2024 · The claim that Jimmy Carter sold the Panama Canal to Panama for one dollar is false. The transfer of the canal was part of a comprehensive diplomatic agreement, not a financial transaction.

Jan 28, 2025 · Carter Returns the Canal to Panama. When Jimmy Carter took office in 1977, negotiations with Panama had been ongoing for nearly a decade. But with Republican opposition softening, Carter and his ...

Feb 9, 2010 · In Washington, President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos sign a treaty agreeing to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama at the end of...

The Panama Canal and the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. One of President Jimmy Carter’s greatest accomplishments was negotiating the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which were ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1978. These treaties gave the nation of Panama eventual control of the Panama Canal.

Dec 29, 2024 · The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly 75 years. But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed treaties with Panama's leader, Gen. Omar Torrijos. With a stroke of...

Dec 29, 2024 · Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and most overshadowed, foreign policy achievements.

Jan 2, 2025 · When President Jimmy Carter traveled to Panama in June 1978 to finalize hotly disputed treaties turning over the Panama Canal, he declared that “we stand on the threshold of a new era.” More...

Dec 31, 2024 · Jimmy Carter signed away the Panama Canal. Could Trump take it back? Decades after Carter’s treaty, president-elect said Panama is treating the U.S. unfairly

Oct 18, 1982 · The result of this act was the construction by the U.S. of the Panama Canal within a ten-mile-wide strip of land extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, one of the great...