1999: PANAMA: US HANDOVER LAST MILITARY BASE
1 Dec 1999) Spanish/Eng/Nat The United State’s last military base has been handed over to Panama, ending almost one hundred years of military presence on the isthmus. As children cheered and waved Panamanian flags, a U-S Army colonel gave Panama’s president a symbolic key to the final military base in the former U-S controlled Canal …

