Only four days after the formal start of work to expand its world-famous canal, Panama will mark on Friday the 30th anniversary of the historic Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
The agreements that Panamanian strongman Omar Torrijos and then US president Jimmy Carter signed on Sep 7, 1977 launched a process, which concluded on Dec 31, 1999 with the US handing control of the canal to Panamanian authorities.
An engineering milestone through which between 13,000 and 14,000 ships pass each year, the Panama Canal was opened in 1914 by the US, after 10 years of construction that cost thousands of lives. It was operated by the US for more than 85 years - a condition for US support of Panamanian independence from Colombia.
The treaties of 1977 ended one of the last colonial enclaves in Latin America, known as the Canal Zone, which was ruled by a governor and had foreign laws.
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The agreements that Panamanian strongman Omar Torrijos and then US president Jimmy Carter signed on Sep 7, 1977 launched a process, which concluded on Dec 31, 1999 with the US handing control of the canal to Panamanian authorities.
An engineering milestone through which between 13,000 and 14,000 ships pass each year, the Panama Canal was opened in 1914 by the US, after 10 years of construction that cost thousands of lives. It was operated by the US for more than 85 years - a condition for US support of Panamanian independence from Colombia.
The treaties of 1977 ended one of the last colonial enclaves in Latin America, known as the Canal Zone, which was ruled by a governor and had foreign laws.
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