Talk:Torrijos–Carter Treaties

More on sabotage

FWIW, here's another citation supporting the threat of sabotage. I have not read the book myself, so I cannot vouch for the correctness of this summary, or for the original author's veracity. It's just something I found on the internet. -Willmcw 21:13, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

U.S. Finds it Difficult to Hand Over the Panama Canal

By JONATHAN POWER December 29, 1999

The bitterness ran very deep. A taste of it can be found in Graham Greene's chronicle, "Getting to know the General". In it Greene recounts one of his many intimate conversations with General Omar Torrijos, the military president who negotiated the Panama Canal Treaty face to face with Carter. "The Canal is easy to sabotage", said Torrijos, "Blow a hole in the Gatun dam and the canal will drain down to the Atlantic. It would take only a few days to mend the dam, but it would take three years of rain to fill the canal. During that time it would be guerrilla war waged from the jungle". (The forest and mountains that link Panama and Colombia are among the most impenetrable in the world; and all attempts to link the two countries with a road have failed.)

Greene became the friend and confidante of Torrijos during the difficult days of the treaty negotiations. He observed that Torrijos "would not be entirely unhappy if the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty (as it nearly did). He would be left with the simple solution of violence, which had often been in his mind, with desire and apprehension balanced as in a sexual encounter."

-The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research

William F. Buckley

I noticed that the article states that William F. Buckley disagreed, together with Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, on the Canal treaties. In fact, Buckley agreed with Jimmy Carter on returning the Canal to Panama. Here is a link to his remarks when debating this issue with then Gov. Reagan www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J9TTllu8eU --Schonbrunn (talk) 19:33, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

References to the Actual Treaties???

I came here looking for links to the actual treaties. I'm a little surprised that an article on a treaty wouldn't reference the treaty itself...Nevertheless:

The Neutrality Treaty-- http://www.pancanal.com/eng/legal/neutrality-treaty.pdf (in english)

The Neutrality Treaty--http://www.pancanal.com/esp/plan/documentos/referencia/acp-plan-ref-tratado.pdf (en español)

The Panama Canal Treaty--http://www.mexicodiplomatico.org/art_diplomatico_especial/panama_tratados_canal_torrijos_neutralidad.pdf (en español)

The Panama Canal Treaty--http://www.pancanal.com/eng/ctransition/treaty/frame.html (in english, but unfortunately not a PDF).

Maybe someone with some editing skills could put it into the "References" or "See Also" section... --72.47.85.92 (talk) 02:55, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Just realized that even the official "pancanal.com" site links to the Panama Canal Treaty, while calling it the Neutrality Treaty...

Here is a better link: http://untreaty.un.org/unts/60001_120000/3/1/00004022.pdf.

It provides one document with the English and Spanish versions of the Neutrality Treaty.

--72.47.85.92 (talk) 04:14, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

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