This shout that many people in\nour country don’t have much knowledge of is celebrated on November 9. Unlike\nthe Grito de Los Santos that was during the independence of Panama from Spain,\nthis one occurred during the Separation from Colombia in 1903.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this date the inhabitants of Santiago de Veraguas\ntown decided to support the independence movement that had taken place in\nPanama City on November 3. This fact was collected by the historian Ismael\nOrtega in his book “Fifty Anniversary of the Republic”. In this\nliterary work it is related that the events began when Juan Bautista Amador\nGarcia, nephew of the man who would become the first president of the Republic,\nwas the recipient of a telegram sent from the capital by Ramon Valdes to\nrequest adherence to the deed that had taken place in the capital. Immediately,\nAmador summoned the inhabitants of Santiago to the main square to announce the\nevents, which received wide support from those present, including important\nfigures such as Manuel Salvador Pinilla, who drafted the act of the \u201cCry of Santiago\u201d, and\nOscar Fabrega . The act was signed by a group of notable citizens, representing\nthe vast majority of the province’s inhabitants who approved of the separation\nfrom Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Union of\nSantiago to the Independence Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this way, the capital of\nthe province of Veraguas joined the separatist deed of Panama from Colombia on\nNovember 3, 1903. “Forward… long live the Republic”, was the shout of\nAmador at the moment when those\npresent, they cheered. Subsequently, the people of Santiago seized the\nweapons that the Colombian prefect An\u00edbal Garc\u00eda kept in the city, and assumed\ncontrol of the police station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other important cries in Panamanian history were also\nthe \u201cGrito del Distrito de Pocri\u201d and \u201cGrito de Independencia de Montijo\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Usually when we talk about shout of independence, we immediately think of Rufina Alfaro’s in the heroic town of Villa de Los Santos and celebrated every November 10. However, this is not the only one, there have been others in various parts of Panama, one that caught a lot of attention was the \u201cGrito de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9023,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/9023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Compress_20221102_010031_1341.jpg\")
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