Panamanian Amphictyonic Congress: Step for the Consolidation of the Unity of the Peoples

Published at: 22/06/2024 08:33 AM

On June 22, 1826, the Panamanian Amphictyonic Congress was installed, a desire of the Liberator Simon Bolivar aimed at promoting the consolidation of the unity of the peoples and governments of our America that had won their freedom with the force of the sword.

The chosen city was Panama, the one to which years before the Liberator had pointed out in his Letter from Jamaica: “How beautiful it would be if the Isthmus of Panama were for us what the Isthmus of Corinth was for the Greeks!... Hopefully one day we will be fortunate enough to set up an austere Congress there.” What he wanted was understanding between all nations, the unity of the Continent, “to form a single nation out of the whole new world”.

This Congress was attended by: New Granada, Venezuela and Ecuador, such as Gran-Colombian countries, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru; United Provinces of Central America, Chile and Buenos Aires did not attend because of the internal situation; Bolivia did not arrive in time and Great Britain sent an observer.

The agenda proposed by the Liberator for the debate at this congress was the strengthening of independence, internal security and non-intervention, legal equality of all States, relations between nations through a permanent plenipotentiary Congress and social reform based on freedom and peace.

However, the results of the Congress were not those desired by Bolívar, since most of the States present were not in a political or economic position to comply with their agreements, to which was added the already marked act of sabotage on the part of the United States, which was already visualizing its desire for domination of our America, as foreshadowed by the Liberator.

The Liberator considered the Amphictyonic Congress to be a failed experience, however, he worked to create the Confederation of the Andes, made up of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, an initiative opposed by the United States, together with the nations that did not attend the Congress of Panama and the ruling classes of the liberated countries of Latin America.

198 years after this congress, the peoples are still fighting to consolidate the necessary unity, which has seen that in the last decade, as a result of the imperial onslaught, efforts achieved in the so-called golden decade have collapsed, where, under the leadership of Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez, the Brazilian Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, the Argentinian Néstor Kirchner and Commander Fidel Castro, the formation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Mazo News Team