The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo de León, arrived in Panama this Sunday, June 21, to participate in the bicentennial of the Amphictyonic Congress, the commemoration of the meeting called by Simón Bolívar in 1826 in an attempt to unite the newly independent American States.
The Guatemalan president arrived at 5:38 p.m. local time (22:38 GMT) at the Tocumen International Airport, the main airport in the country, where he received a hall of honor, along with his wife, Lucrecia Peinado.
The bicentennial events of the Amphictyonic Congress, which together with the 56th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) will mark high-level days in the country with more than 2,500 participants and 92 delegations next week.
In addition to Arévalo de León, the Honduran president, Nasry “Tito” Asfura, participates in the bicentennial; the Colombian, Gustavo Petro; the Ecuadorian, Daniel Noboa, and the vice president of El Salvador, Félix Ulloa, as well as 35 foreign ministers, ten ministers of other portfolios, 113 ambassadors and permanent representatives, as well as delegations from eight international organizations.
For the Panamanian Government, it is of great symbolism that these two meetings coincide in Panama, where 200 years ago the Amphictyonic Congress, convened by the independence hero Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), laid the foundations of what was later called multilateralism, in addition to being the primary antecedent of the OAS.
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