Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero

Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero
Cross of the Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero
Award of  Panama
Type	Order
Gran Maestre	President of Panama
Gran Canciller	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Established	29 October 1953
Precedence
Next (lower)	Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Ribbon of the order

The Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero (Spanish: 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:^[1]

• Collar
• Grand Cross (Gran Cruz)
• Grand Officer (Gran Official)
• Commander (Comendador)

Ribbons
Commander	Grand Officer	Grand Cross	Collar

Awardees

Collar

• Elizabeth II, queen of 7 states at the time of appointment, November 29th, 1953
• Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav Marshal and President, March 15th, 1976
• Juan Carlos I of Spain, September 16th, 1977^[2]
• Fra' Andrew Bertie, 2000
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, August 8th, 2001
• Akihito, Emperor of Japan
• Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
• Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, former president of Uruguay
• Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil

Grand Cross

• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, November 29th, 1953
• Carlos González Parrodi, 1981
• Carmen Romano, 1981
• Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz, 1981
• Luis G. Zorrilla, 1981
• Eduardo Valdés Escoffery, 1994
• Howard Baker Jr, 2001
• Dionisio de Gracia Guillén, 2001
• Suleiman Tayeb Ahmed Salem, January 24th, 2008
• Juan Daniel Alemán, General Secretary of the Central American Integration System, October 11th, 2010^[3]
• Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, November 18th, 2011^[4]
• Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, June 1st, 2012^[5]
• Yuan-Tseh Lee, October 17th, 2012^[6]
• Dionisio Johnson, December 30th, 2015 ^[7]

Grand Officer

• Sir Anthony Bailey interfaith campaigner
• Martin D. Young
• Sean Connery, March 11th, 2003
• Paxson Offield, 2005^[8]
• Robert Berry, 2005^[8]
• Elsie Alvarado de Ricord, 2005 ^[9]
• Eric Douglas Green, October 17th, 2012 ^[6]

Collar

• Jorge Illueca
• José López Portillo, 1981
• Carlos Saul Menem, 1994
• Sebastian Piñera, 2013

Unknown grade

• Eugene N. S. Girard II
• Anil K. Dhingra, 1997
• Paul R. Noland, 1997
• Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, President of Chile
• Enrique Berruga, June 1st, 2001
• Fire Department of New York, November 27th, 2001
• Harriet Mayor Fulbright
• 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

References

1. "POR LA CUAL SE CREA LA CONDECORACION NACIONAL DE LA ORDEN "MANUEL AMADOR GUERRERO"." (PDF). Gaceta Oficial, No. 12218. REPÚBLICA DE PANAMÁ. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
2. El Rey, con ocasión del intercambio de condecoraciones en Panamá
3. http://mire.gob.pa/node/1016
4. http://www.mire.gob.pa/noticias/2011/12/02/panama-condecoro-embajador-de-espana-ante-la-onu
5. http://mire.gob.pa/noticias/2012/08/06/embajador-thalassinos-recibe-condecoracion-del-patriarca-de-jerusalen-theophilos
6. http://www.sinica.edu.tw/manage/gatenews/showsingle.php?_op=?rid:5359%26isEnglish:1
7. http://mire.gob.pa/noticias/2015/12/30/cancilleria-condecora-embajador-johnson-despues-de-45-anos-de-servicio
8. The Peregrine Fund (PDF) (36). Fall–Winter 2006 http://www.peregrinefund.org/docs/pdf/newsletters/newsletter-36-2005.pdf. Retrieved 22 November 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
9. http://www.mire.gob.pa/noticias.php?id=594 Archived 13 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine