What is Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy in Latin America?

In Latin America, the first regional issue addressed by Carter was the status of the Panama Canal. For two decades, the United States and Panama had been involved in difficult negotiations over Panama Canal’s future. To conclude this issue, two treaties were signed in September 1977 namely the Panama Canal Treaty voided all existing treaty arrangements and gave the right to run Panama Canal to the United States until December 21, 1999, and Treaty Concerning the Permanent Neutrality and Operation of the Panama Canal. Carter was less successful in engineering a successful endgame to the political unrest brewing in Central America – in Nicargua led by the Sandinista National Liberal Front (SNLF). Anastasio Somoza, former president of Nicaragua from 1967-1979, was under increasing pressure from a broad-based group of opposition forces led by the SNLF. Carter chose not to support the besieged dictator and sought to convince Somoza to enter into negotiations with his opponents wherein he declined the offer and fled the country in 1979. His administration recognized the new Sandinista government and provided it with economic aid in order to create stability out of revolution.

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