Panama and the United States: The End of the Alliance

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The United States and the Americas Lester D. Langley, General Editor This series is dedicated to a broader understanding of the political economic, and especially cultural forces and issues that have shaped the Western hemispheric experience— its governments and its peoples. Individual volumes assess relations between the United States and its neighbors to the south and north: Mexico, Central America, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile,and Canada. This page intentionally left blank The United States and the Americas Panama and the United States This page intentionally left blank Michael L. Conniff Panama and the United States: The End of the Alliance Third Edition The University of Georgia Press Athens and London © 1992, 2001, 2012by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Set in 10on 14Palatino Printed digitally in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Conniff, MichaelL. Panama and the United States : the end of the alliance / Michael L. Conniff. — 3rd ed. p. cm. — (The United States and the Americas) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8203-4414-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8203-4414-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) i. United States—Foreign relations—Panama. 2.Panama—Foreign relations—United States. I. Title.£183.8^2065 2012 327.7307287—dc23 2012020990 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for digital edition: 978-0-8203-4477-5 To Jimmy Carter, who accomplished the goal of five U.S. and many Panamanian presidents This page intentionally left blank ...