Omar Torrijos

Panama would improve their relationship with Latin America. Opposing sides argued the “Yours is yours” bit, and Carter proposed the legislation to the Senate on April 1978 and it hardly passed. Together Carter and Panamanian chief of government, Omar Torrijos, signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty. Under this agreement, America would relinquish control of the canal by 2000 and guaranteed neutrality. Another example was the Airline Deregulation Act where it was signed into law on…

authority to govern Panamanian land. It led to increased tension between the United States and Panama, and eventually, a response to civil unrest and protests in the 1950’s and 60’s, (Ormsbee, 2007) a treaty was signed in 1977 between Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama. This treaty was officially titled “The Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal” and had the overall effort to keep the Panama Canal a productive means for society and world…

Imperialism, or globalization in a different term, had upon the world far-reaching impacts throughout history in many aspects, such as political, cultural and economic. It has taken different forms, from the conquest of the Mongol Empire to the dictatorship period of King Leopold II in the Congo, and a much altered when the United States applied the methods of imperialism to the global economy. Certainly, the old and the new imperialism have had both positive and negative effects on different…