A small nation stared down a superpower and won—here's how the paperwork changed the world.
In the year 2000 the United States returned the Panama Canal . To achieve this, the Torrijos-Carter Treaties were signed in 1977. There was a complex game of international diplomacy and intrigues . This is the story of the negotiations.
Direction
Canavaggio unpacks backroom deals with narrative precision.
Editing
Archival footage cuts like a political thriller.
Director
Annie Canavaggio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The treaties were initially so unpopular in the U.S. that Reagan built his 1980 campaign partly on opposing them—then never reversed them in office.
Torrijos allegedly kept a live tiger in his compound and would conduct meetings with it visible through glass—method diplomacy, you might say.
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