Panama celebrates 122 years since its separation from Colombia

Panama celebrates 122 years since its separation from Colombia

Since joining the Gran Colombia after achieving independence from Spain in 1821, Panama became part of successive political entities of New Granada, but the geographic, economic, and political distances between the Isthmus and the central government in Bogota generated sustained local discontent. The fact that the territory was seen as a strategic enclave, with access to both the Atlantic and the Pacific, but scarcely attended to by the central …