Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal...
...POINT during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations, Omar Toreros received unexpected advice from an unusual source, Filed Castro. The ubiquitous Cuban leader called his friend Omar--the military leader who had brought Panama's dream of ruling the canal to fruition--to urge "prudence and caution" in Panama's increasingly complicated external affairs...
...characterize all relations in the complicated world of Central American politics, both groups are likely to turn a deal ear Even General Toreros, one of the region's more responsible leaders of late, had trouble following the counsel proffered by Castro It the negotiations for the return of the Canal failed, he promised, there would be notes. "I have only the alternative of crushing them of leading them," he told author Graham Greene "I will not crush them...
...canal treaties did succeed, thanks to the perseverance of Toreros and other Panamanians The General's patience was a rare commodity, but then Torrijos was a rare individual. As Graham Greene notes in his portrait, Getting To Know The General, Torrijos was a lone wolf on a continent noted for brutal military leaders, a general who earnestly preferred democracy to dictatorship, and a man who rarely used force because his skills as a politician rarely made it necessary. His domestic achievements were substantial but his international achievements were stupendous: in a decade of rule before his 1981 death...
...countryside with the general, he sees Torrijos the politician, yielding to irate farmers on the price of crops. Later we see the General's humanitarian side as he builds a complex for refugees from other, less benevolent military rulers. When Greene accompanies him to Washington to sign the canal treaties, we see Torrijos the diplomat, delivering a pointed yet polite address to the U.S. Senate. But mostly we see Torrijos the person, confiding in Greene his loves, his fears and most of all his dreams for the future of Central America and U.S.-Latin American relations. Greene is very effective...