Archive for March 28th, 2010

More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus I arrived to the territories of present day Panama, Christopher Columbus XX is back with plans for an ambitious historic tourism project called Castilla del Oro. The plan is to recreate the 16th century in the provinces of Veraguas, Cocle, Herrera and Los Santos, emphasizing the folkloric...
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The last recorded execution in Panama was the firing squad shooting of Victoriano Lorenzo on May 15th, 1903 in the Plaza de Francia in Casco Viejo.  Lorenzo was imprisoned for several months before the order came from Bogota, Colombia to shoot him for robbery and murder during the War of a Thousand Days. Lorenzo...
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