When was the Panama Canal turned back over to Panama?

Question

...1919.... 1945 ....1975... or 2000?

Answer 1

The handover

The Miraflores Locks are seen here in modern times, as a ship enters the locks from Miraflores Lake, on the last stage of her journey to the Pacific Ocean.The invasion effectively ended military control over Panama. President Mireya Moscoso took office on September 1, 1999 and was Panama's first woman in the job. The treaty came into force on 31 December 1999, and since that date the canal has been run by the Panama Canal Authority.

The handover was highly controversial in the U.S., and its passage was difficult. The controversy was largely caused by contracts to manage two ports at either end of the canal, which Panama awarded to a Hong Kong-based conglomerate, Hutchison Whampoa. Some contend that the company has close ties to the Chinese government and the Chinese military.[24] However, the U.S. State Department says it has found no evidence of connections between Hutchison Whampoa and Beijing.[25] Some Americans were also wary of placing this strategic waterway under the protection of the Panamanian security force.[26]

Answer 2

On September 7, 1977, an agreement was signed for the complete transfer of the Canal and the fourteen US army bases from the US to Panama by 1999 apart from granting the US a perpetual right of military intervention. Certain portions of the Zone and increasing responsibility over the Canal were turned over in the intervening years.

The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were turned over to Panama on December 31, 1999.

Answer 3

Negotiations toward a new settlement began in 1974, and resulted in the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. Signed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos of Panama on September 7, 1977, this set in motion the process of handing the canal over to Panamanian control. Though controversial within the U.S., the treaty led to full Panamanian control effective at noon on December 31, 1999, and control of the canal was handed over to the Panama Canal Authority.

Answer 4

2000. But that traitor, Jimmy Carter signed it away in 1975. Why do people have to copy others facts and post it as if it was their own? That in plagiarism!

Answer 5

in the last ten years not 1945 ok something more recent after i was born and i am twelve

Answer 6

1945 i think

Answer 7

December 31,1999

Answer 8

2000. My brother was a part of that.....