IN RULES TO THE BINTENARY, MiCultura PRESS OBRA "1821"

Before intellectuals, writers and historians, the Minister of Culture (MiCultura) and president of the National Commission of the Bicentennial of Panama's Independence of Spain, Carlos Aguilar Navarro emphasized that "every book is an adventure" and that in that sense the work "1821 The independence of Panama from Spain and its time, ""by historian Alfredo Castillero Calvo fulfill that principle.

The words of the incumbent of MiCultura were produced at the launch of the book 1821 that tells the background of the movement that concluded with the independence of Panama from Spain on November 28, 1821 and that forms part of the different acts that form part of the celebration of the important historic date for the country.

According to Aguilar Navarro this collection that brings us to the past allows the reader "to witness what happened at Istmo before that mythical year of 1821" and thus to better understand "that historic moment that was an umbrella for Panamanian people, that date that led us to light another future."

The head of the Cultural portfolio described Alfredo Castillero Calvo as a person who since his age had been fascinated by the events that had occurred at that time and "this book, is another proof of that legitimate desire to know, learn and share that historic moment of our Spanish independence."

He added that the work "puts us at the head of a world with other social, economic and cultural habits, but at the same time, this book also allows us to re-discover that life is cyclical, that we are immersed into some kind of perpetual spiral, - why - at that time and at this time there are links and correspondences that bind us to yesterday's ispels with those of today."

The formal presentation of the work was by Enrique De Obarrio, a member of the National Commission, who felt that the complainant "scattering as no one else the process that led to our independence from Spain, two hundred years ago and that the magnitude of this work will meet the expectations of an increasingly passionate selection of readers about history"

The book "1821 of 621 pages, in the presenter's opinion, shows" the challenge that this undertaking signified for a dedicated and dedicated historian of the size of Castillero Calvo, "as" hilvana and explain events of that Panama in a secession war closely linked to the world. "

For his part, the author of his work, Alfredo Castillero Calvo, after thanking the National Government, the Ministry of Culture and the National Commission of the Bicentennial, told at the event about his efforts for several years to be able to collect all the information that allowed him to raise this historic narrative.

He counted his studies in Spain, his visit to his national archives to get the texts about the emancipatory movements of the colonies. He recalled that in 1960 he did his first publications about the issue but felt the need to deepen his research in later years so as to get to be able to propose this work.