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They won’t be able to vote… by Miguel Antonio Bernal Lindbergh Augusto Gante; Marco Aurelio Rosas Martínez; Everett Clayton Kimble Guerra; Cruz Mojica Flórez; Alonso Sabín Castillo; Daniel Quirós Espinosa; Ramón Mojica; Ariosto González; Luis Castro Quintero; Javier Sánchez; Candelario Torres Sánchez; Manuel Alberto Díaz Adames; José Manuel Morantes Madrid; Julio Mario Villarreal de las Casas; Luis Antonio Quiroz Morales; Carlos Milar González Caballero; Anel Saldaña Araúz; Julio Alberto Samudio Silvera; Juan Demóstenes Araúz Miranda; Leopoldo Rafael Allen Serracín; Benjamín Miranda Castillo; Eulogio Rivera Delgado; Walter Sardiñas Iguini; Alfredo Aguilar Fonseca; Ernesto Castillo Cubilla; Cecilio Serracín Fuentes; Carlos Alberto Araya Bernal; Héctor Manuel Candanedo Valenzuela; Gerardo Olivares Velásquez; Alfredo Serracín Garzón; Diomedes González Santamaría; Daniel Simoné Hernández; Heriberto Antonio Manzzo Quintero; Dora Ceferina Moreno Jaén; Javier Enrique Guerra González; Daniel Emilio Heart Pérez; José Enrique Pimentel; Cesáreo Eligio Tejada Núñez; Hipólito Quintero Delgado; Tomás Palacio Salinas; Ignacio Salinas; Rubén Morales; Alberto Morales. José del Carmen Tuñón Bethancourt; Belisario Gantes Batista; Encarnación González; Floyd Wendell Britton Morrison; Heliodoro Portugal; Félix González Santizo; Elías González Santizo; Teodoro Palacios Hurtado; Narciso Cubas Pérez; Alcibiades Bethancourt Aparicio; Juan Lekas; Ever Quintanar Guzmán; Jesús Héctor Gallego Herrera; Genaro César Sarmiento Vega; Rubén Oscar Miró Guardia; Jorge Tulio Medrano Caballero; Andrés Emilio Fistonich Ortega; Waldemaro Osorio; Jorge Antonio Camacho Castro; Demóstenes Rodríguez Álvarez; Román Rivera Montenegro; Reinaldo Sánchez Tenas; Betsy Marlena Mendizábal Hill; Jorge Enrique Falconett González; Jaime Alberto Fredericks Muñoz; Rita Irene Wald Jaramillo; Berardo Castillo González; Cecilio Hazlewood Mitchell; Marisol del Carmen Aguilar Cortés; Macario Blanquicet Valencia; Delia Perry Rose; José de la Rosa Chávez Peralta; Tomás Rojas Hinestroza; Jorge Galván; Nicolás Moreno Nieto; Primitivo González Martínez; Félix Antonio Serrano Rodríguez; José Ángel Gutiérrez Vega; José de la Concepción Rojas Coloma; Edwin Eredio Amaya Amaya; Silverio Alfonso Brown Turton; Hugo Spadafora Franco; Yito Barrante Méndez; Eduardo Enrique Carrera Sierra; Nelson Eddie Martínez Cubilla; Armando Morán Núñez; Valentín Poveda Agriel; Carlos Efraín Guzmán Baúles; Alcibiades Vásquez Ojo; Diego Villarreal Serrano; César Augusto Cajar Batista; Luis Antonio González Santamaría; Nicolás Johannes Van Kleef Filcz; Manuel Alexis Guerra Morales; Félix Augusto Vásquez Medina; Juan José Arza Aguilera; Jorge Bonilla Arboleda; Francisco Concepción Espinoza; Deoclides Julio; Feliciano Muñoz Vega; Eric Alberto Murillo Echevers; Ismael Vicente Ortega Caballero; Edgardo Estanislao Sandoval Alba; León Tejada González; Nicasio Lorenzo Tuñón; Moisés Giroldi Vera --- these are citizens who won’t be able to vote in the October 22, 2006 referendum, as the result of the oldest criminal abuses of power, the extrajudicial execution. Murdered and disappeared by the dictatorship of the same people who today ask for a “yes” vote, after having raised a deception about expansion, this time with the concurrence of those who by their acts or omissions sponsored more than 21 years of such actions. Milán Kundera teaches us that “the struggle against power is the struggle of memory against oblivion.” There are those who have preferred or opted to forget. There they are. To those we tap to remember and not lose sight of the reality behind the inaptly named expansion, we bear in mind the disappeared and executed, “Because what’s important is to know is if the state respects the human rights and political citizenship of everyone who lives under it, if it is capable to renounce part of its sovereignty to collaborate with other countries to confront worldwide challenges, if it offers reasonable protection against misery and violence. The color of its flag and its extension on the geopolitical map is the least of it. Some present states may perhaps be reformed on grounds of political pragmatism and all would have to yield to supranational unions that make confrontations among countries impossible and which resolve the great problems of humanity.” Thus, in the face of the attitude assumed by the ACP board of directors and its top executives, by the government and the promoters of the “yes” campaign, those of us who don’t sell out our country must continue to believe that “the country is the memory,” and adopt as our own the words of Panama’s foreign minister of 1921, Don Narciso Garay, who said that “Panama has been obliged to submit to its hard fate, but in its very weakness finds sufficient energy to cry to heaven against the injustice and the violence to which it has been subjected, and to declare that so long as Panamanian hearts beat in this world the deep wound inflicted upon their dignity and stature will remain open and they will anxiously look to posterity for the redemption of the justice now denied, but which will come some day due to God’s inexorable design.”
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