Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero explained

Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero
Type:	Order
Date:	29 October 1953
Head Title:	Gran Maestre
Head:	President of Panama
Head2 Title:	Gran Canciller
Head2:	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Lower:	Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa

The Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero (Spanish; Castilian: Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero) is the highest honour of Panama. Named after Manuel Amador Guerrero, the first president of Panama, the order was established on the 50th anniversary of Panama's independence on 29 October 1953. It is awarded to recognize distinguished people (Panamanians and non-Panamanians) in the sciences, arts, and politics.^[1]

Grades

There are four grades of the order:

• Collar (Collar)
• Grand-Cross (Gran-Cruz)
• Grand-Officer (Gran-Oficial)
• Commander (Comendador)

Awardees

Collar

• Elizabeth II, Queen of 7 States at the time of appointment, 29 November 1953
• Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav Marshal and President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 15 March 1976
• Don Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, 16 September 1977^[2]
• Servant of God Fra' Andrew Bertie, 78th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, 2000
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, 8 August 2001
• Akihito, Emperor of Japan
• Rainier III, Sovereign Prince of Monaco
• Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, former President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
• Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
• Nicos Anastasiades, President of Cyprus, 23 July 2013

Grand-Cross

• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Consort of 7 States at the time of appointment, 29 November 1953
• Carlos González Parrodi, 1981
• Carmen Romano, 1981
• Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz, 1981
• Luis G. Zorrilla, 1981
• Fredrick Chien, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, 1994
• Eduardo Valdés Escoffery, 1994
• Howard Baker Jr., 2001
• Dionisio de Gracia Guillén, 2001
• Suleiman Tayeb Ahmed Salem, 24 January 2008
• Juan Daniel Alemán, General Secretary of the Central American Integration System, 11 October 2010^[3]
• Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, 18 November 2011^[4]
• Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, 1 June 2012^[5]
• Yuan-Tseh Lee, 17 October 2012^[6]
• Lawrence Edward Chewning Fábrega, Ambassador to the Organization of American States and Vatican City 18 August 2014^[7]
• Dionisio Johnson, 30 December 2015^[8]

Grand-Officer

• Anthony Bailey, interfaith campaigner, 2004
• Martin D. Young^[9]
• Sir Sean Connery, 11 March 2003
• Paxson Offield, 2005^[10]
• Robert Berry, 2005
• Elsie Alvarado de Ricord, 2005^[11]
• Eric Douglas Green, 17 October 2012
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America

Commander

• Jorge Illueca, sometime President of the Republic of Panama
• José López Portillo, President of the Mexican United States, 1981
• Carlos Menem, President of the Argentine Republic, 1994
• Sebastián Piñera, later President of the Republic of Chile, 2013

Unknown grade

• Eugene N. S. Girard II
• Anil K. Dhingra, 1997
• Paul R. Noland, 1997
• Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, President of Chile
• Enrique Berruga, 1 June 2001
• Fire Department of New York, 27 November 2001
• Harriet Mayor Fulbright
• Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America
• Karl Johnson, 2001
• Ramiro Ordóñez Jonama, 2001
• Ricardo M. Alba, 2002
• Harold Bernstein, 2002
• Raul Orillac Arango, 2003
• Matt Kim, 2012
• David Rockefeller
• Harold Christian Hofmann 2007
• Luis Anderson McNeil

Notes and References

1. Web site: POR LA CUAL SE CREA LA CONDECORACION NACIONAL DE LA ORDEN "MANUEL AMADOR GUERRERO".. Gaceta Oficial, No. 12218. REPÚBLICA DE PANAMÁ. 22 November 2012.
2. http://www.mpr.gob.es/servicios/publicaciones/vol16/pag_08.html El Rey, con ocasión del intercambio de condecoraciones en Panamá
3. Web site: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores – Vicecanciller Arrocha condecora al Secretario General del SICA . 2012-11-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024752/http://mire.gob.pa/node/1016 . 4 March 2016.
4. Web site: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores – Panamá condecoró a embajador de España ante la ONU . 2012-11-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053135/http://www.mire.gob.pa/noticias/2011/12/02/panama-condecoro-embajador-de-espana-ante-la-onu . 4 March 2016.
5. Web site: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores – Embajador Thalassinós recibe condecoración del Patriarca de Jerusalén, Theophilos III, Gran Cruz de la Orden de los Caballeros del Santo Sepulcro . 2012-11-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306212734/http://mire.gob.pa/noticias/2012/08/06/embajador-thalassinos-recibe-condecoracion-del-patriarca-de-jerusalen-theophilos . 6 March 2016.
6. Web site: 中央研究院.
7. Web site: Merecido reconocimiento al ilustre panameño Embajador Lawrence Chewning Fábrega . https://web.archive.org/web/20170331213532/http://www.mire.gob.pa/noticias/2014/08/18/merecido-reconocimiento-al-ilustre-panameno-embajador-lawrence-chewning-fabrega. 2017-03-31. dead.
8. Web site: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores – Cancillería condecora a Embajador Johnson después de 45 años de servicio . 2015-12-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113158/http://mire.gob.pa/noticias/2015/12/30/cancilleria-condecora-embajador-johnson-despues-de-45-anos-de-servicio . 4 March 2016.
9. Web site: Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine . University of Virginia . Social Networks and Archival Context . 20 June 2017 .
10. The Peregrine Fund Newsletter . Board of Directors of The Peregrine Fund . Fall–Winter 2006 . 36 . i. 22 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121016082358/http://peregrinefund.org/docs/pdf/newsletters/newsletter-36-2005.pdf . 16 October 2012 .
11. Web site: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la República de Panamá – Bienvenidos!. www.mire.gob.pa . https://web.archive.org/web/20060213214607/http://www.mire.gob.pa/noticias.php?id=594 . 13 February 2006.