There lay the final chapter of that Thousand Days War, that 15th day of the month of May, of that venerable year of 1903. In a tortured and riddled heap lay the spirit of patriarchal Panama, claiming at last the spirit of her one and only hero of liberation. Continue reading
Images thanks to Mr. George Chevalier
A month had passed and with no word from his people in Penonomé his desperation induced him to begin to engineer an escape. His plans were to make an attempt even if he was caught; anything was better than to wait for death to overtake him. The night of December 23rd, he thought, would be the night he would try his escape. Continue reading
The image is of Vicente Guerrero- an excellent example of a "pardo" soldier who rose through the ranks in the Mexican Revolutionary struggles against Spain to become President of the nation in 1829.
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