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The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly ... "So it very much created a road map of inequality," Corinealdi says. But President Carter alongside Panamanian military leader ...
But in the Canal Zone, what flag to ... were unfurled at Balboa (see map). Before long, a crowd of 150 Panamanian high school students appeared carrying Panama’s national emblem.
the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that established permanent U.S. rights to a "Panama Canal Zone" that stretched across the nation. However, the person who negotiated on Panama's behalf did not ...
and for decades afterward in the U.S.-administered Panama Canal Zone, a stretch of land 5 miles on either side of the 50-mile canal governed as sovereign U.S. territory. “Gold dollars for the ...
The social and racial divide along the Panama Canal Zone in its American heyday was stark: a silver and gold, segregated system of pay — and life. “Separate schools, clubhouses, commissaries ...