Portobelo and San Lorenzo, World Heritage in Danger (SOC by the State party) and Management Plan

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Katti Osorio

Friends and Friends of Heritage Panama:

Thanks to Information System of the State of Conservation (SOC) enabled by the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, of free access to all around the world, les traigo this update published this month of February 2014. This is a PDF file with the English summary of the report submitted by the State Conservation Panama, Portobelo and San Lorenzo on. It is thanks to the policies of public access to information from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), we can have secondary access to this national information about our world heritage sites.

This report was generated by the Panamanian authorities under their own responsibility and point of view, and is a separate and distinct report to Report Information System State of Conservation of the World Heritage Centre and ICOMOS.

Here is the link: Dale click aquí, comes at the end of tabla, next to the boxes marked “2014 / SOC Report by State Party” & click, “Summary of the State of conservation report by the State Party / Summary Report of the State party on the state of conservation (29/01/2014)”. It is a four-page summary, one formato PDF, in English.

Portobelo. Fort Santiago de la Gloria (Photo of the Author)

SUMMARY SUMMARY

In a “abstract” and Salón “Summary Conservation Status Report”, the list as a PDF file in the List of World Heritage, the following fortifications: 1 – The fortifications of San Fernando: Low battery, superior battery, and strong house on the hilltop, 2 – Battery Fuerte San Jerónimo; 3 – Fortifications of Santiago: Castle of Santiago de la Gloria, Casa Fuerte battery and on top of the hill;. 4 – Former Fort Santiago; 5 – Fort Ruins Farnese; 6 – Site of the Trench; 7 – The site of San Cristobal; and finally, Castle of San Lorenzo El Real de Chagre and superior battery as separate structure, ambos a 43 km away from Portobelo, at the mouth of the Chagres River.

The report says the Panamanian authorities as elements that have adversely affected the property (Portobelo and San Lorenzo):

Very bad weather, with a pattern of high temperatures and lots of rain, materials that eroded monuments.

Ground instability in the hillsides around Portobelo; Quote landslides that occurred in the year 2010.

Changes in the slope of the slopes caused by the construction of the access road to Portobelo in the early 1970, and accumulation of water caused by the change thus produced the natural drainage of the hills.

Increased level of sea water due to sedimentation, causing loss of beaches and affecting water coming monuments.

Urban sprawl in Portobelo, including illegal constructions on the ruins and its immediate perimeter.

Panamanian authorities noted that the strongest risks related to climate, suggesting that these factors exacerbate risks caused by man (anthropogenic), as urban sprawl, Water pollution, illegal construction and conservation management incipient.

Titled, “Proposed mitigation measures”, the existence of an Emergency Plan mentioned, based on which an intervention strategy is set, where major mitigation measures are (translate verbatim the points 1 until 11):

1) Strengthen the maintenance work carried out by the Board Portobelo and San Lorenzo, adapting its budget to the scale of the necessary intevenciones.

2) Controlling urban pressure on the strengths of Portobelo, redefining buffer zones and land uses allowed (residential, commercial, parking, etc.) near structures.

3) Solve built environment pollution, as well as water pollution by solid waste, via a drainage system integrated. Required to build public health facilities within existing buildings, the scale of the city, all connected to the sewer.

4) Weed control and extermination and removal of all vegetation roots of invasive.

5) Remove all additions built with concrete, and replace them with traditional materials.

6) Waterproofing work on all ceilings, parapet walls, and any other structural elements to prevent the penetration of rain water and intensification of the deterioration of buildings and ruins.

7) Protection waterproofed surfaces, to allow pedestrian uses.

8) Repair and maintenance of drainage channels of water in and out of the strengths, to allow free flow of rainwater into the sea.

9) Repair rainwater tanks inside the strengths and installation of submersible pumps to discharge water directly into the sea or existing water channels, avoiding unnecessary water pressure on the outside walls and foundations.

10) Complete selective restoration of a limited number of strengths in order to determine actual costs of conservation and establish final standards for finishes and structural treatment to be followed in all future preservation work in Portobelo and San Lorenzo. Cal, wood, stone, brick, etc.. shall be procured locally as much as possible. The extracted material must also be reused when possible.

11) The second phase trabajo conservation will focus on rehabilitation for tourist purposes, Cultural Studies, educational workshops, etc.. in view of sustainable management and maintenance.

Titled, “Monitoring”, Panamanian authorities say the main action carried out during the year 2013 It was a slope stabilization project in the adjacent fortifications of Santiago that were affected by landslides in December hill 2010. This project was monitored by the “Technical Unit of the Office of Casco Antiguo”, in charge of monitoring the Management Plan for World Heritage Sites in Panama. The Management Plan was adopted by Resolution No. 186 DNPH (this means, which is a resolution, the National Institute of Culture through its National Heritage – DNPH), published in the Official Gazette No. 27387 of 3 October 2013. The abstract ends, indicating that the file monitoring presented below (in the full document, that is the internet) is presented in the format established by the Management Plan.

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ON THE PLAN OF MANAGEMENT OF PANAMA UNESCO SITES

For information on all of you, Resolution No. facilitated them. 186 DNPH de 2013 (Dé click aquí), and inserted in the Official Gazette No. 27387 of 3 October 2013 (Dé click aquí).

Although the title of the Resolution reads, “Whereby the management plan of UNESCO sites approves Panama”, only refers to two (2) of the five (5) Panamanian registry sites on the World Heritage List. The three natural World Heritage sites Panamanians still managed by the National Environmental Authority (The Centre), not by the National Heritage (DNPH) the National Institute of Culture (INAC). Means for, property consists of the Old Town of Panama and the Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo, and property consists of fortifications in Portobelo and San Lorenzo.

World Heritage Panamanian / Panamanian World Heritage

This plan is outlined in a simple resolution, elaborada for the DNPH. It consists of five paragraphs and three resolved, in the first of which consists of a list of 20 plan objectives.

The second pre-determined points to existing authorities to Resolution, somehow that will support compliance objectives listed in the first resolved.

It is very striking that the second does not mention resolved Patronage Portobelo San Lorenzo, nor the Patronato Panama Viejo, currently managing the respective sites present on the board INAC, everyone.

The third resolved signals the start date of the plan. It ends with the legal basis, which are the Constitution of the Republic of Panama (and general), and the basic laws of Panamanian heritage: Law 14 of 1982, Law 91 of 1976 and Executive Order 51 of 2004.

It is interesting that the Manual of Standards and Procedures for Restoration and Rehabilitation of the Old Town of Panama City, is supported by the hierarchy of Decree Law No.. 51 of 2004, by which it approved the Policy and Procedures Manual, containing inserts in articles some institutional resolutions DNPH. Certainly, Historical Monumental Complex of Old Town Panama Panama is the only monument that has its own manual of this type.

Give thanks to UNESCO for, whose transparency policies allow us access to this information publicly available both in Panama and abroad.

Regards,

Katti Osorio Ugarte

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The Report Information System State of Conservation of the World Heritage Centre and ICOMOS, likely to be available in July 2014, will be generated jointly by the World Heritage Centre and ICOMOS international reference material for the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at its next meeting in mid- 2014. It will incorporate information provided by Panama in its report, reports and information and materials generated specifically for the case of international experts from UNESCO advisory bodies.

These are the latest SOC, generated by the World Heritage Centre and ICOMOS: State of Conservation (SOC), in English.

Statement released on 21 th of January, 2014 by Movement for Strengthening Panamanian Identity

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Katti Osorio

Friends from Panama Equity:

I bring the statement released on 21 th of January, 2014 in La Prensa of Panama, by Movement for Strengthening Panamanian Identity (click here for our Facebook page), in which I belong. It refers to the removal of the chair of History of Relations with the United States Panama, in schools and universities in Panama.

Regards,

Katti Osorio Ugarte

The Press / 21 th of January, 2014

STATEMENT OF MOVEMENT FOR IDENTITY PANAMEÑA

Faced with the recent statements by President, in the sense that the removal of the chair of History of Panama's relations with the United States is justified, in our schools and universities, because it generates anti-American sentiment, citizens who participate in the Identity Movement Panamanian felt outraged. Thus, we join the clamor for citizens to be reinstated where this subject has been deleted and respected where it still survives, in the context of the school and university curriculum of the Republic of Panama.

Denounce:
The aforementioned public statements of the President of the Republic are regrettable because reveal a conditional identity and overly accommodating to the interests of the U.S.. by our president.

We believe that this subject should be so current and objective, without prejudice or animosity against other nations, but always in defense of decolonization and recovery of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our country, as well as historical memory and identity of the Panamanian. Panamanians why we have become U.S. public relations, or any other country in the world, at the expense of our right to keep and update knowledge of the national past, to defend our economic interests, political and cultural, and strengthen our identity and national project.

The decrease in hours of teaching subjects and the history of Panama absorption Relations with the United States Panama, in an overall synthesis, in schools and universities, promotes the loss of historical memory and identity of Panamanian, between youth and adults, besides damaging generational change our historians the consequent contraction of their workplace.

The proposal to eliminate this subject responds to a foreign neoliberal utilitarian guideline to reduce hours of study of national histories in general, with the aim of strengthening technical training and learning natural sciences, detriment of the humanities, intended to meet the needs of the domestic market, global, removing material for the formation of the individual, leading us to significant gaps in the sense of valuing the shared roots, social responsibility, universal and national solidarity among Panamanians. This is aimed to train robots instead of forming citizens.

We argue:
National identities are constructed dynamically and relationally against other identities: Panamanian identity, from 1850, was constructed in relation to conflict and cooperation with U.S. neocolonialism in the Isthmus. For his part, American identity, and particularly Zonian, were the most powerful Republican counterpart Panamanian identity, becoming his "significant other", explained as symbolic anthropology, Spain and Colombia replacing in that role, in earlier periods of our history.

Historical memory is the basis on which builds and renovates national identity. And national identity, bad a state can design a project inclusive, where all Panamanians can recognize and feel represented.

The subject of History of Relations between Panama and the United States is the backbone of the republican history of Panama, including separation from Colombia, The Protectorate, the site of the Canal Zone, as the creation and consolidation of the Republic of Panama, to this day. And not exclude broader and global eyes of our international relations but, conversely, focuses on the context of the new colonialism.

This chair is in effect today, because E.U.A. remain the main customer of the Panama Canal; because Panama has signed a Trade Promotion Agreement with that country with serious consequences of weakening the national agricultural sector; because the issue of combating drug trafficking has generated an international agreement that allows the construction of naval bases and requires considerable investment budget of Panama, without apparent success results; because we are also the subject of espionage by the U.S.; and the clause De Conccini, in the Torrijos-Carter Treaty, compromising the sovereignty of the nation state. These are some of the most important bilateral issues with the leading world power in this.

Social needs, current trade policies and our country require consolidating the sovereignty of the Panamanian State, design a national long-term project, whose foreign policy more proactive and diversified so far, based on the experience of the bilateral relationship with the U.S.. to redefine it in terms decolonization among nations.

Propose:
Reinstating the chair of History of Relations between Panama and the United States, the legal mandate and the necessary budget to upgrade the course and their texts; training its teachers with more comprehensive and scientific approaches that have been taken so far and the implementation of educational technologies.

The subject's use of bilateral relations with the U.S.. to rethink Panama options inside and outside of this binomial, overcoming narrow approaches to geopolitics Panama through history. From domestic criticism of U.S. relations with Panama, we can contemplate the choices we face in the present to diversify and expand our international policy and what this means to develop our regional integration best alternatives.

Liberate the study merely curricular vision of history: pedagogy adopt a mobilizing to educate ethics; overcome the description of historical facts and making visible the lived route live, by the Panamanian nation, to achieve the sovereignty of the National Government, democratic and popular, so that youth recognize their right to democratic participation and responsibility in building this goal.

Last, reiterate our call on the urgent need for Panamanians recover our historical memory and strengthen national identity. We express our Movement rejects any chauvinistic discourse on ethnic supremacy and, conversely, adopt the discourse of decolonization and cultural diversity of Panama, in tune with our Latin American and Caribbean environment, that should prompt us to build a free society, sustainable, intercultural fair and walk together to the XXI century.

Coordinators of this Notice:
Ana Elena Porras, Ricardo Rios Torres, Eduardo Flores Castro

Given in Panama, Republic of Panama, on the 18 th of January, 2014

First Session of, Let's Talk About Heritage 2014, “Heritage and Memory: 9 January 1964”

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Katti Osorio

Dear friends of Patrimonio Panamá:

Part Talk Heritage Days Committee, I extend the invitation to the First Day of the Year Heritage Talk 2014, “Heritage and Memory: 9 January 1964”. You are cordially invited!

Dear Friends:

Happy and happy year for you all, Part of this Let's talk about your Heritage Days Committee!

Always grateful for your interest in this effort for heritage and culture in Panama, we begin let's talk about Heritage Days in 2014 with our First Day, “Heritage and Memory: 9 January 1964”. So with great excitement, we become partakers of the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the patriotic deeds of 9 January, with all of you.

The objective of this first day is a dialogue on the profound action of memory in shaping our country heritage. In this special case, we have the introduction to the topic through their direct experiences in events 1964 Cesar Villarreal. They continue Francisco Herrera, eloquent and profound reflections on identity and memory within the 9 th of January, 1964, Alina Torrero and also lead us to deeper thoughts, with a new way of looking at the past and bring nearer the city, in those spaces for memory keeping. César Villarreal will be our moderator.

On the First Day Talk of Heritage 2014, “Heritage and Memory: 9 January 1964”, we auspices Patronato Panama Viejo, National Library “Ernesto J. Castillero”, it MAC Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, City of Knowledge, this Committee and its Heritage Days Talk. The Day will be held on Thursday 30 th of January, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), in Martyrs Avenue and Calle San Blas, Ancon. You will find attached to this post, the front and back of the invitation card, and a guide map to reach the MAC.

As always, expect them enthusiastically, mind and open arms. Admission will be free forever. Invite those who want; come and listen, ask, share with us, and again talk about heritage.

The hope!

Regards,

Katti Osorio Ugarte
Let's Talk About Heritage Committee
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First Session of, Let's Talk About Heritage 2014, "Patrimonio y Memoria: 9 January 1964"

First Session of, Let's Talk About Heritage 2014, “Heritage and Memory: 9 January 1964”

341st anniversary of the relocation of Panama City

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Katti Osorio

Dear friends of Patrimonio Panamá:

Today marks 341 years since the relocation of Panama City, from the place we now know as the Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo, to her current seat on the peninsula occupied by the Historic District of Panama (Casco Antiguo). The 21 th of January, 1673 is a special day, where the geopolitical importance of the strategic position of the port city of Panama in Central America was reaffirmed.

The 21 th of January, 1673 the relocation of Panama City became official 1673 from its original seat in the ruins of Panama Viejo, to another location about eight miles away; a location we know today as Casco Antiguo, within the same city limits assigned to it by the Spanish crown's royal decree of 6 th of September, 1521. These extended from the boundary of the city of Natá, the Chame River to the West; Chepo River to the East; Nombre de Dios to the North, approximately half the distance between the two cities; and the Islands of the Pearls, to the South. Indeed, Panama City was relocated, not refounded, within its original territory, with its Cabildo (seat of municipality), its Royal Court and diocese.

The relocation took place on 21 th of January, 1673, as Don Antonio Fernández de Córdoba executed the royal decree of 31 October 1672, by which the Spanish crown ordered the city relocated to the site called “Lancon” by building in the name of the king the houses for the Royal Court, the Cabildo, and the Cathedral Church; namely, the royal power, the Municipal power and ecclesiastical power for the government of Tierra Firme, retaining the port city on Perico Island, and giving special importance to protect the city by an enclosing wall. In the twentieth century, Panama City Council adopted the Decision No.. 59 of 13 of May 1953 officially declared 15 of August, 1519 date of foundation, considering the 21 January as the date of relocation. On the year 2019, Panama City will be 500 years old.

UNESCO recognized Panama Viejo and Casco Antiguo as the same city, registered in two stages in the World Heritage List, in 1997 and in 2003. Its outstanding universal value is based on the same evaluation criteria for Panama Viejo and for Casco Antiguo, because the relocated city continued its original functions as terminal of maritime and terrestrial routes. Cultural exchange through the centuries, its access to the sea, and the very special setting of the rocky peninsula that protects the historic district gave rise to its urban layout, to the development of its architecture, and to its geopolitical importance, which seduced the mind of Simon Bolivar to celebrate in Panama his Amphictyonic Congress despite the state of ruin in which the city was in 1826, according to maps from the first half of the nineteenth century.

Last year, we celebrated 500 years of the South Sea sighting by Europeans. Both events, the sighting of the South Sea (Pacific Ocean) 1513 and the founding of Panama City in 1519, are inseparable facts. With his sighting, Balboa demonstrated that this land was a new continent to the western world, and also the fact that he had gone across an isthmus. Panama City was born from the order of the Spanish empire to found a port city that would serve as a spearhead for the domain of the new sea and the rest of the continent. From it were established transisthmian routes, Camino Real and Camino de Cruces, and sea routes, linking the port of Panama with other major ports such as Acapulco and El Callao, established after the conquest travels to Mexico and Peru, creating connections that spread to Asia. Its geopolitical significance was worth the cost and effort of reactivating Panama after assault and destruction 1671, transferring it to a nearby site that would allow to quickly reactivate the port in Perico Island, and the Fairs of Portobelo on the Atlantic coast. Panama City and its history can not be interpreted without the sea that surrounds it and that gave it access to the world.

Regards,

Katti Osorio

Approximate boundaries of the city of Panama as royal decree of 6 th of September, 1521.

A single property: Archaeological Site of Panama Viejo and Historic District of Panama (790bis) (Panamá)

Décimas to the Motherland on the fiftieth anniversary of 9 January

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Katti Osorio

Dear friends of Patrimonio Panamá:

This has been an excellent week to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Patriotic Feat 9 th of January, 1964. With the Law No. 118 of 27 December 2013 declaring the 9 January each year Day of National Sovereignty, citizen initiative presented by the Citizens Movement for Strengthening Identity Panamanian, from this year on the date of the Patriotic Feat shan't be transferred to create a long holiday weekend (día puente), and will be remembered with events, TV specials, educational activities, conferences, murals and art exhibitions, as well as public State events, every year from now on.

Dear friends, I bring for you a segment “of the Ceremony commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Patriotic Feat 9 January 1964” which took place on 8 th of January, 2014 at the National Library “Ernesto J. Castillero R.” Panama City. The ceremony was carried out under the auspices of, the Citizens Movement for Strengthening of Panamanian Identity (also known as, Movement for the Rescue of Identity and Historical Memory), National Library “Ernesto J. Castillero R.”, National Institute Foundation, National Institute Association – Generation 1964, Alumni Association of the National Institute – Generation 1957. The ceremony was beautiful, involving local personalities linked to the Patriotic Feat, and the venue was completely full with public.

There was no party flags, Panamanians and jubilant friends only. There were speeches, poetry, and testimonies of the Patriotic Feat; presentation of certificates to illustrious Panamanians and of course, the itinerant exhibit of the Caravan of Sovereignty, with varied and abundant documentation on the 9 th of January, 1964 and related events.

This is the segment that I want to share with you:

El Grupo Riba-Smith, troubadours sponsored by supermarket chain Riba-Smith, sang Décimas to the Motherland on ocassion of the Solemn ceremony. They were very nice songs, so I would like to share their music with you. The Changmarín Foundation was present, and presented to el Grupo Riba-Smith a CD of Décimas to the Motherland by Master Carlos Francisco Changmarín, Panamanian author, essayist and composer of great renown, for his work on national issues. Professor Ricardo Rios, driver of the Caravan of Sovereignty, also received a CD in recognition of his worthy efforts to promote the historical memory of the homeland.

I will update this post later, with some photos.

Regards,

Katti Osorio

To commemorate the 9 th of January, 1964: Public Events

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Katti Osorio

Friends from Panama Equity:

I extend the following invitation to several public events, open and free, commemorating the patriotic deeds of 9 th of January, 1964:

CITIZEN PROGRAM OF REMEMBRANCE CINCUENTENARIO 9 JANUARY

CALL:

CITIZEN MOVEMENT FOR STRENGTHENING OF IDENTITY PANAMEÑA

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION PRO

FOUNDATION Ascanio Villalaz

NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION

The Citizens Movement for Strengthening Identity Panamanian, conjunction with the Foundation for National Institute, The Ascanio Villaláz Foundation and the National Bar Association, Panama invites people to participate in its program of activities commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of 9 January.

We clarify our decision to develop the next programmingcompletely independent of the Official Committee, intended to safeguard the solemn character and nature of popular 9 January, tribute to martyrs. In this spirit, Festine wish to avoid the Day of National Sovereignty, electioneering under criteria, because we defend the 9 January is National Heritage.

This program is for all Panamanians, without any requirement that respect for historical memory and the sense of belonging with the epic of national sovereignty.

Candidates for the upcoming elections who wish to join our activities provided only carry the national flag, joining as one among the crowd, in respect for heroes 9 January.

Monday 6 January:

2:30 p.m.: Introducing the Coral Poetics Diana Moran, with students from the National Institute, directed by Anais Morán Rovi, Riba Smith Supermarket in the Transístmica.

5:00 p.m.: Hossana TV. Olympus Sáenz Program invites the Columbus Chapter of the Identity Movement. Dr stellar share. Guillermo Pimentel Rolla.

Tuesday 7 January:

10:00 a.m.: Introducing the special edition of the Lottery Magazine Commemoration 50 years of the Heroic Deeds of 9 January 1964. Auditorium of the National Lottery.

1. Speech by Dr. Eduardo Flores Castro, on behalf of the Editorial Board of the Journal Lottery.

2. Testimonios by Prof.. Elba Isaza (Generation of Institutora 61), Lic. Marcos Ramirez (Gen. 64) and Dr. Rimsky Sucre (Gen. 64).

Wednesday 8 January:

10:00 a.m.: Solemn ceremony at the National Library Ernesto J. Speeches by Castillero: Adolfo Ahumada, Rosa Maria Britton, Eduardo Flores Castro, Eduardo Henríquez, Mani Gueuigdinapi and Ana Elena Porras.

2:30 p.m.: Introducing the Coral Poetics Diana Moran, with students from the National Institute, directed by Anais Morán Rovi, Riba Smith in the East Coast.

8:00 p.m.: to 12 midnight. Vigil for Cultural Memory 9 January and Rescue National Institute. Steps of the National Institute.

Thursday 9 January:

8:00 a.m. Focusing on the National Institute Stairways. Singing the National Anthem Institute.

9:00 a.m. Civic march towards the "Monument to the Heroes of the Fatherland", located on the Avenue of the Martyrs. Act against citizen Monument: Remarks by Prof. Ricardo Rios Torres, Prof Minstrels Tenths. Carlos Francisco Changmarín, Poems to martyrs, recited by Anais Moran and Indira Moreno.

4:00 p.m. Walk from the National Institute to the steps of the Administration Building of the Canal. Addresses by leaders of guilds, student movements and associations and civic.

Friday 10 January:

9:30 a.m. Dissertation on the meaning of 9 January, by Dr. Ana Elena Porras and Dr. Eduardo Flores Castro, in the Blue Room of the Assembly of Deputies (will be broadcast live on the channel of the Assembly).

Saturday 11 January:

8:00 a.m.: El Dr. Eduardo Flores Castro invites sabatino hear Radio program "Science for All" (The Primerísima 1470 AM), where will play host to Prof. Luis Navas who will talk about the exploits of January 64 City of Columbus.

We also recommend this blog, “The Look Nuchu”, storyteller Carlos Fong, who has compiled several cultural events, including theater, in this excellent event calendar: Agenda for recall: 9 th of January, 1964.

Regards,

Katti Osorio.

Panama has returned to the restored flag patriotic deed of 9 th of January, 1964

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Katti Osorio

Friends from Panama Equity:

I bring a short report of the National Television Channel 2 (TVN) on arrival in Panama Flag the ground 4 th of January, 2014, carrying students from the National Institute on 9 th of January, 1964, which was torn Zonian zonians police and at the site of Balboa High School, “Balboa High School”. The tattered flag, for many years rested in an urn at the National Institute, was sent to Spain under the auspices of the Panama Canal Authority, Thanks to the efforts of the National Institute graduates Generation 1964, Ministry of Education, The Canal Museum, and the National Institute of Culture.

http://youtu.be/D5ug7FHWa40

In the video, Flag was received with honors in Tocumen International Airport, with the presence of the Minister of Government and Lic. Rimsky Sucre, he witnessed part of the historical facts of 9 th of January, 1964. I note that the flag is not displayed the flag restored, but a Panamanian flag covers honorably transported the box where the restored remains of the Panamanian flag was torn the 9 th of January, 1964.

Flag carried by the students of the National Institute on Canal Zone 9 th of January, 1964. The Panamanian delegation was reduced to six students by the authorities of the Canal Zone; the rest is in the background photo. Source: La Estrella de Panama.

Roberto Chiari President receives the torn Panamanian flag. 9 January, 1964.

President Roberto Chiari received from citizens torn by the Panamanian flag and police zonians 9 th of January, 1964.

Hopefully see you soon put on display to the public with honor and precautions for proper conservation. I am extremely curious to see what work was done in its restoration.

This is the video of the Panama Canal Authority, when the flag was moved for restoration.

Regards,

Katti Osorio.

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A pride for the Panama Canal constribuir restore flag 9 January. Panama Canal Authority, 4 th of January, 1964.

NOTE:
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Conclusion: A law, finally enacted, for the deeds of 9 th of January, 1964

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Katti Osorio

Dear Friends of Patrimonio Panamá:

I bring great news. Today finally, has come enacted law in the Official Gazette for the deed of 9 th of January, 1964. It's a great win in Panama city! This success has come from the hand of the Citizens Movement for Strengthening Identity Panamanian.

Previous Article, for reference to the background of this triumph: Patrimonio Panama | A Law for the heroic deeds of the 9 th of January, 1964

This is the Official Gazette No. 27442-A Monday 30 December 2013, where among other things he promulgated Law No. 118 of 27 December 2013, “declaring 9 January each year Day of National Sovereignty, subrogated Law 13 of 1967 and amending an article of the Labor Code.”

Under the text signed by the President of Panama, and promulgated in Official Gazette:

Law 118 of 2013, page 1 of 3

Law 118 of 2013, page 2 of 3

Law 118 of 2013, page 3 of 3

The Digital Gazette of Panama can be found at, www.gacetaoficial.gob.pa, and on the website of the National Assembly of Panama, LEGISPAN.

Regards,

Katti Osorio
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Note:
The text of the Act 118 of 27 December 2013, your scanned by the Official Gazette of Panama Image, and all its related information are public and freely accessible on the website of the Digital Official Gazette and National Assembly of Panama.

20 December 1989

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Katti Osorio

Dear Friends of Patrimonio Panamá:

The year 1989 was a year marked by dramatic changes and events that marked milestones in human history. Although undoubtedly, countless years in the historical record can be described in the same way, 1989 It was an exceptional year in politics, as cruel and ambiguous.

In 1989, Japanese Emperor Hirohito was succeeded by his son Prince Akihito, as the new Emperor of Japan; Hirohito died the same year. Emperor Hirohito saw the defeat of Japan in the world's only atomic bombing, executed by the United States on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and was the first emperor to declare to his people that it was not of divine origin, as part of the terms of surrender of Japan in World War II. The postwar period of the Second World War led to the Cold War between the world powers. In 1989, Berlin Wall fell; one of the most recognized symbols of the Cold War, and that divided Germany and children in East Germany, under communist ideology, and West Germany, production under capitalist systems. In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini decreed a fatwa famous for offending Islam against the writer Salman Rushdie for writing and publishing the book, The Satanic Verses, offering three million who killed him. He came up with the slaughter of the Caracazo in Venezuela; Asteroid Asclepius 300 m diameter, passed near our planet nearly twice that distance from the Earth to the Moon, causing fear for its proximity; in 1989 the revolt in Tiananmen Square occurred, that ended in slaughter and state censorship; States called Eastern Bloc Communist regimes under revolutions that took place were the prelude to the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); dictatorship fell Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, which lasted 35 years old; He ended the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile with the democratic election of President Patricio Aylwin; fell Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife was shot; failed military coup against Moses Giroldi Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega…

In 1989, the United States invaded Panama. They bombed various parts of the country and the capital city in an illegal invasion which began the 20 December. Extracted dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega, former employee of the CIA and drug trafficking, and took him to their country. They stopped sworn the winner of the last election slate, whose victory Noriega refused to recognize: Guillermo Endara Galimany, president; Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderon, Vice. Some mark them as direct or indirect part in the Invasion of Panama.

My country was invaded by the army of the United States 20 December 1989.

The enormity of the preceding sentence should he become paragraph, in assay, Novel and Book, herself. I was a little girl in 1989, Pre Media still in high school, which at that time was called First Cycle. I was born under the military dictatorship, that began in 1968 with the dictator Boris Martínez, predecessor Omar Torrijos and Manuel Antonio Noriega. All my guesses about what democracy question were somewhat gruesome theoretical issues, he had never seen in practice; was used to alleviate the effects of tear gas white vinegar in a towel, to my parents' salary was paid in worthless government bonds, fear of night shootings, the rolling blackouts of the regime and curfew; the missing; al headless corpse of Hugo Spadafora; to “rabiblancos” and his belief in the shopping paradise of Miami and Disneyworld; fear of people talking loudly or express the slightest discontent; repression. I can not say I understood something, because nobody understood anything. According to my parents, education was the only way to float above the absolute poverty and have decent work; not worth the work itself, but run it with dignity, refusing to make up numbers, reject bribes and compromising not accept gifts. Panamanians had enrolled in paramilitary forces called Dignity Battalions, Codepadis, and other unlikely names whose sole function was chasing with steel rods to spank them. Dually, batallonero could be a PRD, the political arm of the regime. “¡Civilista visto, dead civilian!” It's just a phrase, and trauma. There were checkpoints, police and guards whose mere presence was a threat. Civilian was learned to be the opposite of all that, defined and as brutally clear as right and wrong.

While bombs were falling, Whole neighborhoods were burning in the dark night, especially Chorrillo, where was The Model, the darkest prison regime after Isla Coiba Penal (Today Coiba National Park and World Heritage natural reasons, unhistorical), and I remembered Anne Frank. When we read her diary in class, I never thought I was going to have a direct experience of how she felt in her country at war with itself. Nobody knows for sure how many Panamanians had died that Christmas, in 1989. After that came the looting. First for food were; after, no longer. People ran mad, breaking windows and stealing clothes and brand shoes under the contemptuous and unflinching look gringo soldiers; yes, libraries were the safest place in those moments Panama. My parents taught us that this was shameful and dishonest, and I fully agree. During that time, when we ran out of cans and dry food, My father went to look for food and knew the fear of not knowing if he would return; not abstract as above, bell a real fear, almost physical. The neighbors erected a barricade at the entrance of the neighborhood, but for good or evil in it lived a colonel in the Defence Forces (FFDD), and American soldiers took; a tank of Americans patrolling our street twice a day. My mom us away from windows. We were a country invaded, occupied by a foreign army. In the papers that were reactivated, came a front-page photo of a climb on a tank girl to kiss feast with an invading soldier, under the headline, “Where is his mother?”. It was surreal and strange.

Some cheered the invasion and received U.S. troops with open arms and full pan, and who call release. They took Noriega, but parents also bought, mothers, HIJOS E is. The 20 December is a day of mourning. The dictatorship ended, but I'm not happy the method. It was a sad Christmas. Panama did not deserve that.

Today, I have traveled the world, I speak three languages and have friends in several countries, including the United States. There are wounds that heal, but communication is key for us to understand and we understand. Although in those years the OAS gave back, I believe in the power of a world organized for peace and tolerance.

The image that I bring is the work of Manuel Salvador, talented graphic artist. Kindly let me put it here. It is a dream image, Based on these facts so terrible. The line reminds the burning buildings bombed Chorrillo neighborhood, their dead, their night of agony. I can not add more.

Regards,

Katti Osorio

Image source: Manuel Salvador. http://www.behance.net/MANUELSALVADOR, https://www.facebook.com/TheBluePenProjectByManuelSalvador

Wall of Heroes, painted a second time by the Kolectivo (Updated to 15 December 2013)

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Katti Osorio

Updated at 15 December:

Are 25 No days for anniversary. 50 the achievement of 9 th of January, 1964. The Kolectivo The group held meetings on 10 and 11 December with the general director of the National Institute of Culture, who invited them in order to mediate the controversial mural. The proposal of the Director General was rejected by the group of artists, as it included not paint the controversial wall, fences but that would be built for that purpose.

It was aggravating to the argument that just days before, an allusive mural to the deed of 9 th of January, 1964 painted on the Avenue of the Martyrs by a guest artist for this occasion of the Biennale Panama, was also covered with gray paint by authorities.

Odeith, Biennial South. Source: The Kolectivo

The work was removed by the authorities in a piece of graffiti artist Portuguese Odeith, who was invited to the Biennial South in Panama in April 2013, and participation was funded by the Mayor of Panama. The work commemorating the heroic deeds of 9 th of January, 1964 with a composition designed and executed by Odeith occasion of the Biennale in South, and was inexplicably covered with gray paint by the authorities in the wake of the controversy over the mural of The Kolectivo on same street.

Click here to see the work completed at the time of, web page Odeith.

Another work of The Kolectivo was also, removed.

The mural was painted by El Kolectivo in January 2013, and blotted with gray paint by authorities in December 2013. Source: The Kolectivo.

Updated at 8 December:

Are 31 days for the arrival of No.50 Anniversary of the patriotic deeds of 9 th of January, 1964. This Week, The Kolectivo tried again to paint the mural commemorating the feat in the scene, The Avenue of the Martyrs. Units from doing police work, to citizen disapproval. He assured that Kolectivo will return to intentarlo. Here I bring a television news on this intent, filmed by HISPANTV – Nexo Latino:

Click this link to view the news in video.

Additionally, I bring you this video of La Prensa:

Updated at 30 November:

Now with more colors, The mural becomes Kolectivo. I find that they have upgraded with new colors. The photograph, taken from the The Facebook page Kolectivo, data yesterday 30 November.

Photo of the mural before being cleared by the Ministry of Public Works:

For more information on what the mural is and why it is being painted for the second time, look at this blog entry entitled, Patrimonio Panama | Urban art and historical memory: Wall of Heroes, covered with gray paint

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Wall of Heroes, painted a second time by the Kolectivo (Updated to 15 December 2013)