Omar Torrijos, Panamanian commander and politician, Military Leader of Panama (died 1981)

Omar Torrijos

Military leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981

Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera was the Panamanian military leader of Panama, as well as the Commander of the Panamanian National Guard from 1968 to his death in 1981. Torrijos was never officially the president of Panama, but instead held self-imposed and all-encompassing titles…

List of heads of state of Panama

This article lists the heads of state of Panama since the short-lived first independence from the Republic of New Granada in 1840 and the final separation from Colombia in 1903. Since 1904 the head of state of Panama has been the President of Panama.