'Democracy and freedom': Jimmy Carter's human rights efforts in Latin America
Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, defied the furor of US conservatives to negotiate the handover of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control, suspended aid to multiple authoritarian governments in the region, and even attempted to normalize relations with Cuba.
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A person stands in front of a bust of former President Jimmy Carter where people laid flowers in his memory at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Georgia, December 29, 2024. (AFP)
By NewVision Reporter
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With a focus on human rights, US policy toward Latin America under Jimmy Carter briefly tempered a long tradition of interventionism