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Also in this section:  Looking up the Prado toward the Administration Building The ACP displays the patriotic symbols photos by Eric Jackson This is November, the month when
Panama celebrates its independence from Spain and later from Colombia
and the foundation of our government's oldest institution, the Cuerpo
de Bomberos.
It's thus no surprise that our most important industrial asset, most valuable public property and best-paying employer, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP, by its Spanish initials), would display the patriotic symbols. 
The eternal flame in honor of the 1964 martyrs at the site of the old Balboa High School flagpole. The pillar in the background honors Estanislao Orobio, a 17-year-old high school student who carried a Panamanian flag onto the lawn of the old Tivoli Hotel (near the present-day headquarters of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) in Ancon, and who was shot and killed by a Canal Zone cop. Also in this section: News
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