ABSTRACT
The separation of Panama from
Panama made the decision to voluntarily
Colombia was an event that occurred
join Gran Colombia, an extinct state
on November 3, 1903, after the
made up in most of its territory by
Thousand
present-day
Days
War,
and
that
Colombia, and
Panama.
Ecuador,
triggered the proclamation of the
Venezuela
Republic of Panama. For Panamanian
understanding
historiography, the proclamation of the
economic
Republic of Panama was the result of
management would be preserved.
that
With
the
autonomy
of
and
administrative
a nationalist and autonomist process
In 1826, the year in which the
that was built since the late eighteenth
Anfictiónico Congress was held in the
century, and that concluded with the
capital of Isthmian, Panama rejected the
separation of Panama and Colombia.
Bolivarian constitution, but this did not
On the other hand, for Colombian
prevent the first attempt at separation
historiography, the secession of Panama constitutes an attack on the political-
from Gran Colombia in that year. Because the Colombian congress
territorial integrity of Colombia, which
ignored
was devised by the United States in
franchises
association with the liberal Isthmian
thwarted Panamanian aspirations, a
oligarchy of the time.
separatist movement emerged to turn
Declared independence from Spain,
requests for
the
for
commercial
isthmus,
which
Panama into a Hanseatic country under
on November 28, 1821, the rulers of
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