Bryan-Chamorro Treaty

American  

[brahy-uhn chah-mawr-oh] / ˈbraɪ ən tʃɑˈmɔr oʊ /

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

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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