Con caña y café

El hilo conductor es la historia panameña. Como marco para su pensamiento, el autor delimita dos naciones panameñas, El dique y El agua, las cuales se entrelazan o se enfrentan. En su recorrido, muchas veces sinuoso, pasa revista de lo que piensan los extranjeros del panameño común, los éxitos setenteros de Rubén Blades, el léxico de los istmeños, Omar Torrijos, Manuel Antonio Noriega y otras muchas particularidades de sus paisanos. Finalmente, examina a la luz de esta información lo que fueron los llamados Papeles de Panamá.

Las referencias a los reyes Fernando VI y Bárbara de Braganza en la historiografía suelen ser tan escasas como previsibles. Los pocos estudios que reparan en los monarcas, en su labor política y en su vida, comienzan todavía hoy lamentado su desconocimiento y terminan con lo más divulgado: la locura de un rey que no pudo vivir una vez muerta su mujer. El reinado de Fernando VI parece una "sala de espera" hasta que la llegada de Carlos III iniciase la serie de las grandes reformas del Despotismo Ilustrado. Sin embargo, la contabilidad del reinado presenta muchos aspectos positivos. No...

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