U.S. INTERVENTIONS IN PANAMA
Sept. 19-22, 1856: "To protect U.S. interests during an insurrection."* Sept. 27-Oct.8, 1865: "To protect U.S. interests during a revolution." April 1868: "To protect the property and lives of...
...21, 1914 to safeguard U.S...
...interests during hostilities caused by the inauguration of the government of Panama...
...17-24, 1904: "To protect U.S...
...9, 1964: To stop Panamanian students who sought to raise the Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone, U.S...
...12-23, 1925: "Strikes and riots by tenants obliged some 600 U.S...
...January 18-19, 1885: "To protect objects of value being moved by Panama's railroad, as well as the Company's safes and vaults during revolutionary activity...
...troops supervised elections outside the Canal Zone...
...Source: Este Pais #2, July 1986, CEASPA, Panama...
...1918-1920: "For police duties, according to treaty stipulations, during electoral disturbances and subsequent agitation...
...interests during an attack on the town of Bocas del Toro by a bandit leader...
...March and April 1988: To overthrow the government, the United States imposed devastating economic sanctions...
...residents during a revolution...
...4, 1903 until Jan...
...April 16-23, 1902: "To protect U.S...
...interests and lives during and following the revolution of independence from Colombia, due to the construction of the canal in the Isthmus...
...soldiers killed 21 and wounded more than 500...
...17-Nov.18, 1902: "To place armed guards in all crossing trains and maintain the railway open...
...April, 1921: "A U.S...
...soldiers to disembark to maintain order and protect U.S...
...April 1868: "To protect the property and lives of U.S...
...May 7-22 and Sept.23-Oct.9, 1873: "To protect U.S...
...property in the Isthmus and maintain transit lines open during serious revolutionary disturbances...
...Nov...
...Jan...
...1912: "At the request of the political parties, U.S...
...lives and property in Bocas del Toro during a civil war...
...Quotes extracted from a longer list of U.S...
...1903-1914: "To protect U.S...
...With short interruptions, the Marines were stationed in the Isthmus from Nov...
...March 8-9, 1895: "To protect U.S...
...interventions in the hemisphere presented in Senate testimony by Secretary of State Dean Rusk in 1962 to justify the option of direct intervention in Cuba...
...Navy squadron held maneuvers on both sides of the Isthmus to prevent war between the two countries [Panama and Costa Rica] over a border dispute...
...Nov.20-Dec.4, 1901: "To protect U.S...
...March and April 1885: "To re-establish free transit during revolutionary activity...
...lives and property in Anc6n, at the time of insurrectionary threat...
Vol. 22 • July 1988 • No. 4
