Workers' Revolutionary Party (Panama)
Workers' Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT) was a Panamanian political party. The PRT was created in October 1983. Prior to the 1984 balloting, it joined with a number of trade union organizations in a coalition styled the United People's Electoral Front (FREPU), which neither the People’s Party of Panama or the Workers' Socialist Party chose to join. “This Trotskyist organization criticized but supported the Manuel Noriega regime and urged it to follow the nationalist policies of the Omar Torrijos government, especially the building of popular democracy. Led by Graciela Dixon the PRT encouraged the government to strengthen the role of the masses in the political process”. Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Ed. by Charles D. Ameringer. Greenwood Press. 1992. Pp. 482. The PRT vehemently opposed the Manuel Noriega Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (; February 11, 1934 – M ...
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United People's Electoral Front
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People’s Party Of Panama
People's Party of Panama ( es, Partido del Pueblo de Panamá, PPP) was a communist party in Panama. It was founded on 4 April 1930 as the Communist Party of Panama (''Partido Comunista de Panamá'', PCP), after Panamanian communists broke away from the Labour Party. Early leaders of the PCP included Eliseo Echévez and Cristóbal Segundo.Busky, Donald F. Communism in History and Theory: Asia, Africa, and the Americas'. Westport, Conn. ;London: Praeger, 2002. p. 195 The PCP joined the Communist International and reached its apogee of popularity during and right after World War II.Political parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. V. 1. Edited by Robert J. Alexander. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. 566. In 1943 the PCP changed its name to the People's Party of Panama.Political Handbook of the world, 1993. New York, 1993. Pp. 638. The small but well-organized party then exerted considerable influence on the Panamanian Federation of Students ...
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Workers' Socialist Party (Panama)
The Socialist Workers Party (Spanish: ''Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores'', PST) was a Panamanian Trotskyist political party. The PST was accorded legal recognition as a party in September 1983. It sought, unsuccessfully, to enlist the support of the People’s Party of Panama in an electoral front against "Yankee imperialism" in 1984. The PRT vehemently opposed the Manuel Noriega-led National Democratic Union coalition in 1984 and ran its own candidate, Ricardo Barría, for president. In 1990, after the overthrow and arrest of Manuel Noriega Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (; February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) was a Panamanian dictator, politician and military officer who was the ''de facto'' ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. An authoritarian ruler who amassed a personal fo ..., the PST joined the United Patriotric Front to protest the U.S. intervention. The PST was officially deregistered in November 1984.Political Handbook of the world, 1993. New York, 199 ...
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Manuel Noriega
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (; February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) was a Panamanian dictator, politician and military officer who was the ''de facto'' ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. An authoritarian ruler who amassed a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations, he had long standing ties to United States intelligence agencies before the U.S. invasion of Panama removed him from power. Born in Panama City to a poor pardo family, Noriega studied at the Chorrillos Military School in Lima and at the School of the Americas. He became an officer in the Panamanian army, and rose through the ranks in alliance with Omar Torrijos. In 1968, Torrijos overthrew President Arnulfo Arias in a coup. Noriega became chief of military intelligence in Torrijos's government, and after Torrijos's death in 1981, consolidated power to become Panama's ''de facto'' ruler in 1983. Beginning in the 1950s, Noriega worked with U.S. intelligence agencies, and became one of the Central I ...
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Omar Torrijos
Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981) was the Commander of the Panamanian National Guard and military leader of Panama from 1968 to his death in 1981. Torrijos was never officially the president of Panama, but instead held titles including "Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution". Torrijos took power in a ''coup d'état'' and instituted a number of social reforms. Torrijos is best known for negotiating the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties that eventually gave Panama full sovereignty over the Panama Canal. The two treaties guaranteed that Panama would gain control of the Panama Canal after 1999, ending the control of the canal that the U.S. had exercised since 1903. On December 31, 1999, the final phase of the treaty, the US relinquished control of the Panama Canal and all areas in what had been the Panama Canal Zone. His son Martín Torrijos was elected president and served from 2004 to 2009. Background Torrijos was born in San ...
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National Democratic Union (Panama)
National Democratic Union may refer to: * National Democratic Union (Armenia) (founded 1993) * National Democratic Union (Brazil) (1945–1965) * National Democratic Union (Greece) (1974–1977) * National Democratic Union (Italy) (1946) * National Democratic Union (Panama), a political coalition in the 1984 Panamanian general election General elections were held in Panama on 6 May 1984, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new Legislative Assembly. Background Under October 1978 legislation, eight parties had met quotas of 30,000 valid signatures by 1 April 1983 ...

José Renán Esquivel
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county ...
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Defunct Political Parties In Panama
Defunct (no longer in use or active) may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service, or practice is no longer maintained or required even though it may still be in good working order. It usually happens when something that is more efficient or less risky r ...