The Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) was the stage of an emotional tribute to master Edgardo "Chiche" De León Madariaga, an essential figure in the preservation of Panamanian folklore.

The families of all ages, with their typical national clothing, paid tribute to their legacy with a visual tour of their lives and works.

The activity included a catwalk that shown the diversity and beauty of the pits, among them, marked, tiredas, polybroken, white, centuries old, traditional occueña, as well as shaded pits with colors and tipples among many others.

At the event they found families, friends, colleagues and institutions that remember and celebrate the legacy and impact that Professor Madariaga left.

The Minister of Culture, María Eugenia Herrera emphasized that "his legacy isn't only measured in books or recognitions, as did the Dora Pérez de Zárate Award that she received in 2011, but at every built-up who walks with pride and dances at the drum's rhythm."

"Thank you, Master Chichi, for teaching us that culture isn't only inherited: it's grown, defended and celebrated," Herrera added.

Edgardo "Chiche" De León Madariaga was a Folchlorist, researcher, poet, painter and his great passion was the pollera. His academic legacy was reflected in his leading work "Presence and symbolism of the national suit of Panama: The pollera," a fruit of years of study and dedication.

Today his influence lives with every woman who saw a pollera with pride and with every student who inspired him to love the art and traditions of Panama.

That activity was organized by the National Academy of the pollera and the Sixth Diplomate of History and Evolution of the pollera, the posthumous tribute reminded "Chiche" of León as a sewer of roots and guardian of the soul of our traditions.