Guillermo Endara, the purported winner of the May elections, was sworn in as the new President of Panama in a ceremony that took place inside a U.S. military base in the former Panama Canal Zone with
The world's largest island, which sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, is 80% covered by an ice sheet and is home to a large US military base. Greenland gained autonomy from Denmark in 1979. Mr Trump previously called for the US to buy the island during his first...
Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It is 80% covered by an ice sheet and is home to a large U.S. military base. It gained home rule from Denmark in 1979 and its head of government, Múte Bourup Egede, sugge...
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Which doesn't mean that Panama's proposal to turn a United States military base here into an antinarcotics center - where the US and other countries in the region would coordinate the fight against drug trafficking - is meeting with full enthusiasm. Some Latin American countries fear the interv...
Buying Directly from Weavers—When possible, I now buy directly from the weavers. To do that effectively,Ibecamewe. I now have two partners in Montecristi, Jorge and Diego, who are making good things happen. (Diego is now a contract fireman for a U.S. military base in Djibouti, but he...
“They fired on us savagely, they don’t have any respect for journalists,” said Torres. The personnel carrier, which turned out to be American, returned fire briefly, he said. At a Pentagon briefing this afternoon, Army Lt. Gen. Thomas W. Kelly said shooting continued in Panama City ...
In the 1920s, the United States tried to establish the failed Kellogg-Alfaro treaty, which was rejected because it aimed to legalize the presence of U.S. troops on Panamanian soil. "That treaty completely turned Panama into a U.S. military base, that is, a military springboard for the ...
continued to provide water service in the Canal Zone but this arrangement was phased out after the Torrijos Carter treaty was signed in 1977, with the principal goal of transferring the Canal and Canal Zone to Panama, and closing US military bases, starting in 1979 and concluding in 1999[19]...
In fact it's a rather silly story, since it's quite strange that such an important scientist with an invention vital for US security is staying in a (not so) ordinary hotel. The logical thing to do with such a VIP would have been to keep him locked in a military camp, guarded by ...