Panama Edition
World Freshly Swept Step Day leads today's complete edition for Panama.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for the visible care people give to entrances, porches, shopfronts, courtyards, sidewalks, and shared spaces.
The anniversary of the 1903 separation of Panama from Colombia, observed with a military parade, the president's address, and the flying of the Panamanian flag on every building, car, and street corner. The day is both celebration and reflection, because the separation was engineered by the United States, which wanted to build the Panama Canal and could not reach an agreement with Colombia. The Panamanian independence was not entirely voluntary, and the US presence in the Canal Zone would last until 1999.
