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Mexicans in Panama

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Mexican Panamanian
Mexicano panameño
Total population
5,188[1]
Languages
Mexican Spanish, Panamanian Spanish, and a minority of Indigenous Mexican Languages.
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism.

Mexicans in Panama, or Mexican Panamanians are people born in Mexico who live in Panama, or people who were born in Panama but who are or were of Mexican descent.

Mexican culture in Panama

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Carlos Fuentes was born of Mexican parents in Panama, on November 11, 1928 and died aged 83 in Mexico City, on May 15, 2012. His father was a diplomat, and he spent his childhood in various capitals of Latin America: Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, D.C., Santiago, Quito and Buenos Aires, the city where his father comes in 1934 as a counselor of the Embassy of Mexico. He passes his summers in Mexico City, studying in schools to keep his language and learn the history of his country. He lived in Santiago de Chile (1941–1943)[2] and Buenos Aires where he was influenced by notable personalities in American cultural sphere.

Legendary Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán is also of Mexican descent; his father, Margarito Durán, being a Mexican-American soldier from Arizona, United States.[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Mexicanos residentes en PANAMÁ 2020" (PDF) (in Spanish).
  2. ^ Raymond L. Williams (January 1996). The Writings of Carlos Fuentes. University of Texas Press. pp. 7 and 11. ISBN 9780292790971.
  3. ^ Giudice, Christian (April 6, 2016). "Hands of Stone: The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran".