President Carter signed a treaty with Panama in 1977 giving control of the Panama Canal back to Panama in 1999
President Jimmy Carter. 1977
On September 7, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty. The US gave control of the Panama Canal back to Panama in 2000.
On 7 September 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaty, which set in motion the process of handing over the canal to Panamanian control. The treaty came into force on 31 December 1999, since then the canal has been run by the Panama Canal Authority or the Autoridad de Canal de Panama
Jimmy Carter returned Panama Canal back to Panama
By giving the Panama Canal back to Panama, the Soviets could have easily used Cuba to conquer and sieze the canal. If the Soviets had control over the canal then they could set up bombing bases in the Pacfic without any conflit of passage.
The Treaty to transfer the Canal was done by Jimmy Carter, but Bill Clinton was President on the date the Canal was transferred. Bob McMillan
It was Jimmy Carter who signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaty of 1977.
Panama owns the Panama Canal. Although the US had control over the Canal Zone from 1903 to 1979, the treaty was eventually amended in 1977.
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The US controlled the Panama Canal Zone directly from 1903 until the exclusive US-led government was abolished on October 1, 1979, as a term of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties of 1977. From 1979 until December 31, 1999٫ the canal itself was under joint U.S.–Panamanian control. It was on DECEMBER 31, 1999 that full control of the canal was restored to Panama.
in 1534, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ordered the fist survey of a proposed canal route across the Isthumus of the Panama. The survey came back "impossible."