Juan Materno Vásquez de León

Juan Materno Vásquez de León (born September 14, 1927 in Nombre de Dios - died June 21, 1999) was a Panamanian public speaker, lawyer and professor.

His intellectual work was centered on defining the Nature of Being Panamanian.[1] In more than 20 books, television and radio interviews throughout 30 years of public life Juan Materno Vásquez de León's closest definition of a Panamanian was given in the terms of "the Panamanian is that being that is neither black, neither white, neither cholo, neither indio; to the contrary, he is black, white, cholo and Indian."

References

Investigations of the Nature of Being Panamanian (A Theory of the Panamanian Nationality) Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine published in 1981

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[1] Investigations of the Nature of Being Panamanian (A Theory of the Panamanian Nationality) Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine published in 1981