Everything about Floyd Britton totally explained
Floyd Britton, perhaps
Panama's most important
leftist leader of the
twentieth century, came from a Black
West Indian family that had gone to Panama for jobs, one of the two sources of Panama's
Black population. A student leader from his days in secondary school, which he graduated in
1958, he participated in a failed
guerrilla revolt the next year and enrolled in the
University of Panama.
He quickly became a leader of the
militant Revolutionary Action Movement (MAR) and the Federation of Students of Panama (FEP), organized
anti-imperialist protests against
U.S. colonialism, went to conferences in
Cuba, and joined the
People's Party of Panama, Panama's first and main
Marxist party. Perhaps most significantly, Britton was one of the leaders of the protests that are today commemorated in the
Day of the Martyrs holiday in
1964.
With politics heavily influenced both by
Castro's
revolution and
Maoism, he broke with the People's Party forming one of two leftist sects. On
October 11,
1968, a
military coup took power bringing General
Omar Torrijos to power, and within hours Britton was abducted by the
National Guard and sent to the
Coiba penal colony. Hundreds of other leftists were also captured at the demand of the
CIA, most held for about a year. On
November 29 1969, Britton was beaten to death on Coiba, according to numerous witnesses. Panama's governments have long refused to disclose what most suspect, and Britton's remains have never been found, although a search continues.
At the advent of the coup, Britton's political group merged with others to form the
November 29 National Liberation Movement (MLN-29) which briefly engaged in armed struggle against the military regime.
MLN-29 is still a major leader of Panama's left, led by Britton's brother Federico Britton.
Like Britton, hundreds of other political adversaries and civilians suffered the same fate. It is greatly unknown of how many innocents were brutally murdered during the Omar Torrijos /
Manuel Noriega regimes.
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