Revista Panameña de Ciencias Sociales

Rebeldía y Resistencia en los pueblos Mártires de Yandub y Aggwanusadub en la Rebelión Dule de 1925

Bernal Damián Castillo Díaz — 2025-06-10

The Dule rebellion, also known historically as the Kuna Revolution, was an event of great significance in indigenous history in Panama, which occurred in the region today known as Gunayala (formerly San Blas). The Guna took up arms against the assimilation and tax policy of the governments of Belisario Porras and Rodolfo Chiari to defend their human rights of territoriality, identity and spirituality in February 1925. It was a historical event that had been stirring since the 1910s and that broke out in February 1925 when the Guna communities, with the guidance of leaders such as Ologindibipilele (Colman), Iguaibiliginia (Nele Kantule) and Inabaginia, began the strategic planning of this historical feat. However, it was the towns of Yandub/Nargana (Narganá)

and Aggwanusadub (Corazón de Jesús) where the cultural changes began and at the same time the first revolts against the Panamanian government, since children and women were forced to dance to music foreign to their culture late at night, to remove their mola clothing, thus eliminating their customs and Guna identity. Today they are considered martyr towns for being the first to rise in 1919, despite the presence of government police institutions.

Autonomy and identity

Artinelio Hernández Campos — 2025-06-10

The main objective of the article is to analyze, reflect and describe the essential aspects that motivated the Gunadule people to confront the colonial police of the Panamanian State, as well as the subsequent processes of change and transformations that arose from formal education. These transformations were influenced by the ideas that led the Gunas to resist forced integration into so-called “civilized life.” Above all, it seeks to reflect on texts and secondary data that allow the arguments presented to be supported. The research design is based on bibliographic review and documentary analysis. Formal education, as a social institution, played a crucial role in the social and cultural changes after the Dule revolution.

1925

Jonathan José Chávez Jaramillo — 2025-06-10

The Dule Revolution of 1925 was an uprising of the Guna indigenous people in the San Blas region of Panama, in response to government oppression and the imposition of assimilationist policies. Through this movement, the Gunas managed to consolidate their autonomy, an act that represented a brief but significant conflict for this indigenous Panamanian community.

This event not only reaffirmed their cultural identity and self-determination, but also established the basis of the current system of governance of the Comarca Guna Yala. This paper analyzes the causes, development, and consequences of the revolution, contextualizing it within the indigenous struggle in Panama and Latin America.

Development of resilience in the face of structural administrative changes in the public sector

María Pilar Gordón Winton — 2025-06-10

Given the scenario presented by public sector organizations, characterized by complexity, transformation, and innovation, the famous phrase by the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus becomes relevant and timely, who stated “The only constant is change.” It’s about

addressing the great challenge of managing organizations and their human talent to achieve the strategic objectives projected by the company. People’s skills, motivation, and empowerment are part of the innate or acquired competencies needed to maintain excellent performance in their various tasks. However, beyond these and other competencies, people require attitudes that allow them to overcome adverse situations that arise in an environment of change, which will determine if they successfully navigate through transformation.

This article’s primary objective is to analytically review, using a documentary methodology, the concept of resilience, based on authors such as Garmezy N. and Masten A. S., through which evidence is expected to demonstrate that resilience is a competency that a person must have or acquire to develop in their work life within an organization. Its characteristics and personal factors found in the sample application are analyzed, and finally, the conclusions are presented.

Political culture, participation and youth today

Ana María Fernández Poncela — 2025-06-10

This work is a review, description and analysis of various features of youth political culture, with special emphasis on Mexico City and today, and with some comparison with recent years. A presentation of their attitudes and their relationship with politics is made through an opinion survey, which is complemented and enriched with interviews. In particular, the topics discussed are political interest and knowledge; socio-political participation; the importance, respect and reasons for voting, and whether they exercise it. As a result, a characterization of current youth political culture is made, and some findings are highlighted, such as that there is no disinterest in politics, but there is greater abstentionism, less knowledge than other groups or in other times, and participation in non-institutional spaces, among other things.

Inverted Classroom

Ana María Millapi Lielmil — 2025-06-10

The traditional way of promoting learning outcomes in the law course represents a challenge for teachers when taking the academic activity to virtuality. The research sought to understand the teaching experience in the implementation of the flipped classroom in virtual environments in the Law course. A qualitative methodology was used, and the individual semi-structured interview technique was chosen. The teachers stated that the use and management of technological tools applied to virtual education in the law career was scarce, so they presented difficulties when implementing the flipped classroom in virtual environments. The teaching experience is understood taking into consideration their own experience of training as lawyers, where the teacher is the one who directs and guides much of the training process so that implementing teaching strategies in a virtual learning environment becomes complex since success depends on several factors, including student motivation, teacher familiarity with the strategy, and the teacher’s ability to adapt and innovate in their teaching methods. It is expected that this research will contribute to curricular innovation in the law career.

Social perception studies as a tool to contribuite to the study of climate change in Cuban coastal communities

Rosabel Rangel Mendoza — 2025-06-10

This article entitled “The Studies of Social Perception” as a tool to contribute to the study of climate change in coastal communities has as its antecedent the various studies that have been carried out in Cuba and in particular the province of Cienfuegos on the phenomenon of climate change and the level of affectation it brings. Throughout history, environmental problems have made life and development difficult. Several years ago, the problem of climate change has been a worrying issue for scientists and scholars of the ecological theme. Cuba and the island states are the spaces mostly affected by the onslaught of this phenomenon; within this territory the coastal communities have suffered the dire consequences of environmental problems. Sociologists, psychologists and other scientists dedicated to this research have proposed the use of social and socio-environmental persecution studies as a tool to contribute to the mitigation of these problems and find possible solutions. Particularly in Cuba, social perception studies include working with different social actors, from the government to various institutions and ending in community leaders and the inhabitants themselves.

Exchange, hospitality and generosity in Guna society

James Howe — 2025-06-10

When my wife June and I lived in a Guna village in 1970, 1971, and 1975, it seemed to us that our new friends might well have read Mauss’s essay. According to them, giving gifts was of vital importance in their lives: it united the Gunas and marked the boundaries between them and the national society at large. To the guna companions one had to “give without calculating” (binsa ukke) or thinking only of God (dio binsae), without expecting anything in return. Above all, generosity was important when it came to food and drink: our more traditionalist friends insisted that urban restaurants, which sold food for money, represented the worst aspect of the modern world.

The tenant strike of 1925. What has been said and written about it?

Lollalty Moreno de Cuvillier — 2025-06-10

We commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Renters’ Strike. An event that shook Panama- nian social and political life in that decade. As a result of the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaties of 1903, Panamanian society was marginalized from the direct economic benefits of the Panama Canal’s operations. The national bourgeoisie could only accumulate indirectly from the wages of the canal

workers by renting the wooden rooms in which they were crammed. But once the canal’s construc- tion was completed in 1914, many were unemployed, a development that combined with the glo- bal capitalist crisis of the 1920s. So, when the landlords of the rented rooms raised rents in 1925, the popular response was the organization of the Renters’ League and the call for a rent-free strike. To confront them, Rodolfo Chiari’s government invoked Article 146 of the 1904 Constitution, requesting the intervention of the American troops stationed in the Canal Zone. The repression resulted in deaths, injuries, arrests, and the deportation of union leader Blázquez de Pedro. These events are analyzed by various national authors, whose most relevant ideas we cite in this article to help us assess the magnitude of the event.

Editorial

Lollalty Moreno de Cuvillier — 2025-06-10