Las Tablas is the capital of the Panamanian province of Los Santos, with a population of 9,255 as of 2010. It is located a few kilometres inland from the Gulf of Panama on the Azuero Peninsula. Las Tablas is a recognised national centre of Panamanian folk: Art, music, gastronomy, architecture, culture and literature. The only Panamanian president to serve three terms, Belisario Porras, was from Las Tablas.
Belisario Porras Barahona was a Panamanian journalist and politician. He served three terms as President of Panama between 1912 and 1924.
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Brin was President of Panama from 15 June 1945 to 7 August 1948, representing the National Liberal Party of Panama.
The Palacio de las Garzas is the governmental office and residence of the President of Panama. It receives its name because of herons roaming freely in the courtyard. The herons were first brought to the building in 1922, by the former president Belisario Porras Barahona, at the suggestion of friend and famed Panamanian poet Ricardo Miró.
Porras or Porras, and refers to Sporran. Porran Old Scottish Gaelic. McSporran, MacSporran.
General elections were held in Panama on 5 August 1928 to elect both a new President of the Republic and a new National Assembly.
Parliamentary elections were held in Panama on 7 July 1918, electing both a new National Assembly.
Presidential elections were held in Panama on 16 September 1918.
Presidential elections were held in Panama on 25 June 1916.
The Socialist Party was a Panamanian left-wing political party created in 1933 by intellectuals and labor unionists who split off from the Liberal Party and rejected the Communist Party.
The Renewal Party was a Panamanian right liberal political party.
The Popular Union Party was a Panamanian centrist liberal political party.
The National Archives of Panama is the institution in charge of safeguarding national documents. It was created by Law No. 43 of December 14, 1912, under the administration of President Belisario Porras, being Panama the first republic in America to have a building dedicated to its national archive.
Belisario Porras is a corregimiento in San Miguelito District, Panamá Province, Panama with a population of 49,367 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 119,400; its population as of 2000 was 49,802.
José Antonio Price (1890–1951) was a prominent Afro-Panamanian physician and Liberal politician who graduated from University of West Tennessee College of Medicine and Surgery in 1913. Price is regarded as the first black Panamanian to hold a medical degree in republican Panama.
Georgina Isabel Jiménez de López was a Panamanian sociologist, writer, professor, researcher, feminist, and human rights activist. She was the first female Professor of Sociology in Panama.
Belisario is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:
Anarchism in Panama began as an organized movement among immigrant workers, brought to the country to work on the numerous megaprojects throughout its history.
Manuel de los Dolores Quintero Villarreal was a Panamanian general and politician during the early 20th-century. He was known for being one of the main figures during the Coto War as well as a participant in the Thousand Days' War. He was also the Porrista Liberal Party nominee of the 1924 Panamanian general election.
