Word: panamanians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panamanian leaders standing so inflexibly against the U.S. are not the usual run of Latin American leftists and rabid ultranationalists. President Roberto F. Chiari, his most influential ministers and all major candidates in the May 10 presidential elections are members of a deeply entrenched elite that has ruled Panama since it proclaimed independence from Colombia in 1903. They are wealthy, well educated, antiCommunist, vigorously competing among themselves for power-and finding the widely resented canal treaty an ideal target to call attention away from their own position...
...raging tones, Moreno told how "the voice of the machine gun" was the U.S. answer to "Panamanian loyalty," how Yankee bullets "sowed death in the ranks" of Panama's students during the Jan. 9 riots. The U.S., cried Moreno, is a nation "drunk with power. Panama's cause is the cause of all the Americas...
...agreement will require a compromise between the Panamanian demand for renegotiation of the 1903 canal treaty and the United States' offer to "review and reconsider" all points of controversy. It may be true that the United States has already compromised more from its original position than Panama has, but this should not mean that the additional concessions necessary must come from Panama. President Johnson can grant further concessions more easily than Panama's President Chiari can, and Johnson also has a greater need to end the public controversy quickly...
...neither American nor Panamanian, and while I do not condone killing, burning or looting under any circumstances, my sympathies in this affair are with the Panamanians and with the U.S. residents in Panama who strive to disassociate themselves from U.S. and Canal Zone policy...
...Panama has been the Latin American crisis spot so far in 1964. Diplomatic relations with the U.S. were broken after riots ostensibly caused by a dispute over how Panamanian and U.S. flags should be flown in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone. But the dispute goes much deeper than that, stems from burgeoning Panamanian nationalism and long-held resentment about the 1903 treaty that gave the U.S. rights "in perpetuity" over the canal. Panama's President Roberto Chiari insists now that the U.S. must promise to renegotiate the treaty. Tom Mann, who rushed to Panama himself right after the riots...