was a sunny morning. In the days when it rained and there were no classes in January. Guillermo Guevara Paz, a seventeen year old student got up early, dressed proudly in his uniform of the National Institute, placed his badge in his pocket and left for the eagles nest.
Ricardo Ríos y Arellano Lenox |
Since high school I could see windows Guillermo daily cyclone fence on the other side of the avenue called at that time July 4, now Avenue of the martyrs. Behind the fence, between the wide green spaces strewn with myrtle, willow and large mango trees could see the huge mansions of the Zonians.
In many houses threatening the American flag flew the Stars and Stripes.
William as a boy of thirteen years, four years before, had witnessed from those same windows, the so-called sovereignty operation, when a group of academics led by Ricardo Ríos y Arellano Lenox entered the Canal Zone to Panamanian flags planted as a way of reaffirming Panama's sovereignty over the occupied territory. Proceeds from this action that ended in repression of protesters and humiliation of our flag by President Dwight Eisenhower decided that the Panamanian flag should be hoisted on public buildings in the Canal Zone, but not alone, bearing the American flag.
police chief tries to calm the angry Zonians |
Then the students, followed by their parents and later a group of civilians and military Zonians decided to hoist the American flag alone in the Balboa High School, a school Amazonia located just two kilometers from the National Institute and turns around horn to defend, in its view, the U.S. property on the five-mile strip on either side of the channel.
The Zonians trying to grab the flag American police attacks the | institutors
broken flag |
Balboa High School Front are thousands of people including students, parents and civilian militiamen who aggressively shouting all kinds of insults to the group of adolescents. These, idly decided to sing the anthem, despite the boos and shouting obscenities at the Zonians. Noting that are not impressed by his aggressiveness, the Americans decide to pounce and drive the Panamanian pushed. Some Zonians try to snatch the Panamanian flag, they desperately defend. In this police intervention Amazonia that attacks young institutors with police batons to push them area. Homer breaks a Panamanian flag.
Young people run away due to school. Along the way are the rest of the protesters had been detained in a place where they could see the aggression. These are angry at his teammates, who bathed in tears of helplessness will show the flag rotates. Angered by the affront institutors group tries to reach the nearby administration building of the canal to lower the American flag, and avenge the insult, but are intercepted, and not by police but by the time soldiers who had taken up positions. De facto control of the Canal Zone had been the governor's control Robert Fleming to Southern Command chief Andrew P. O'Meara
Students crossing the heavily armed near |
News of the grievance be scattered like ants. Thousands of Panamanians out of the neighborhoods and the university bearing flags. Many cross the fence to plant in the territory usurped. Begin to fall the first wounded.
Ascanio Ricardo Hurtado takes Hospital is murdered after returning |
institutor Ascanio picks up the wounded and accompanies him to hospital, then back to help others. As he did is killed by a rifle shot that goes in the back. It is the first martyr of the feat. Fall after eighteen and two Panamanian Panamanians, Maritza Avila Alabarch only 6 months and Rosa Elena Landecho to thirteen years.
MARTYRS MONUMENT |
The December 31, 1999 in the morning, in a quick ceremony to be carried forward at noon, the U.S. Army lowers its last flag in the Canal Zone, which flew just in front of the administration building, who wanted to be lowered by institutors that fateful January 9, 1964. With 36 years behind the handful of young patriots achieved its goal.
Around her, twenty columns inscribed the names of the twenty martyrs of the January 9, 1964:
Landecho Rosa Elena, 13 Gonzalo
Grace years, 14 years
Vicente Bonilla, 15 years
José del Cid Jr., 16 years
Jorge Enrique Gill, 17
Etanislao Orobio, 18
Reynato Carlos Lara, 18 years
Ascanio Arosemena, 20 years
Jacinto Palacios Cobos, 23 years
Ovidio Saldaña Lizardo, 25 Victor M.
Iglesias, 26 years
Ezequiel González Meneses, 28 Victor M.
Garibaldo, 29 Rodolfo Benítez Sánchez
, 33
Alberto Nicolas Constant, 35
Alberto Oriol Jr. 36 years
Teofilo Belisarius la Torre, 38 years
Ricardo Murga V., 40
Villarrueta Celestino Ruiz, 43 years
Rogelio Lara, 70 years
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