How a 1964 Student Protest Reshaped the Fight Over the Panama Canal | Retro Report

Drawing on eyewitness accounts and archival footage, this video shows how a symbolic fight over national identity between American and Panamanian high school students became a turning point that reshaped diplomacy, amplified demands for sovereignty and eventually led to treaties that transferred control of the canal to Panama. The story helps explain why debates over American intervention and influence in Latin America still resonate today.