Bryan-Chamorro Treaty

[ brahy-uhn chah-mawr-oh ]

noun

1. a treaty (1914) between the United States and Nicaragua by which the United States secured exclusive rights to build a canal across Nicaragua, to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

Example Sentences

Sandino’s defiance of “the Colossus of the North,” as he referred to the U.S., was rooted in a nationalist outrage that dated back to the signing of the ignominious Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, on August 5, 1914.

From The New Yorker