Jimmy Carter signed away the Panama Canal. Could Trump take it back?
The canal was turned over to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999. For Carter, the deal signified a new beginning of mutual respect and cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America, as he said in his speech in 1978. It also showed “the last remnant of alleged American colonialism is being removed” during a time when the world moved away from imperialism.
President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt helped the U.S. take it over.
It was a territory known to some who lived there as a tropical utopia. The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump criticized late President Jimmy Carter's Panama Canal deal, citing it as the reason he lost ...
Carter viewed the Panama Canal transfer as a defining moment of his presidency, while Donald Trump recently reignited debate, calling it a "giveaway." ...
Jimmy Carter being set to lie in state on Tuesday was not enough to protect him from Donald Trump’s rage. The president-elect ...
The Panama Canal treaties were approved by a bipartisan coalition of senators who accepted a counterintuitive reality: Giving ...
Even Republicans, who have used President Carter to attack Democrats for nearly 50 years, have had to reckon with revisionism ...
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Watch: Mike Pence’s Wife Snubs Trump at Jimmy Carter FuneralPoliticians past and present gathered in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.
The nation paused to honor Jimmy Carter for his service as a naval officer, governor and president, and his four decades of ...
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