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The 1923 Pan American Treaty to avoid or prevent conflicts between the American States (Gondra Treaty) was signed at the Fifth International Conference of American States in Santiago, Chile, on May 3, 1923.
The first modern Pan-American gathering was the or First International Conference of American States held in 1889-90 at Washington D.C, which was first proposed by James G. Blaine. [9] Blaine was an advocate for bringing peace to the Americas and wanted a strong commercial relationship between the Americas that would enable the US to compete ...
America's victory in the war ended Spanish rule over Cuba, but promptly replaced it with American military occupation of the island from 1898–1902. [28] After the end of the military occupation in 1902, the U.S. continued to exert significant influence over Cuba with policies like the Platt Amendment. [29]
Pan American Union, later the Organization of American States; Pan Am, a former international airline carrier based in the United States. Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, a defunct oil company; Pan-American, a L&N train that ran from Cincinnati to New Orleans; SS Pan America, a steamship; Pan American (band), an ambient/post-rock ...
The four Latin American Conferences took place prior to the Pan-American Conferences but were highly influential in the campaign to create the Pan-American Union. They are as follows: Congress of Panama on June 22, 1826, in Panama City Initiated by general Simon Bolivar (a Venezuelan political and military leader), the first Latin American ...
Pan-nationalism (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân) 'all' and French nationalisme 'nationalism') is a specific term, used mainly in social sciences as a designation for those forms of nationalism that aim to transcend (overcome, expand) traditional boundaries of basic or historical national identities in order to create a "higher" pan-national (all-inclusive) identity, based on various common ...
In January 1950, Pan American Airways Corporation officially became Pan American World Airways, Inc. (The airline had begun calling itself Pan American World Airways in 1943.) [59] [60] In September 1950 Pan Am completed the $17.45 million (equivalent to $175.32 million in 2023) [15] purchase of American Overseas Airlines from American Airlines ...
The American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), also known as the Pact of San José or by its Spanish name used in most of the signatory nations, Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos, is an international human rights instrument. [1] [2] It was adopted by many countries in the Western Hemisphere in San José, Costa Rica, on 22 November 1969.