Church of Santa Ana
Colonial stone church overlooking a plaza where a nineteen twenty-five rent strike turned deadly.
This guide to the Church of Santa Ana in Panama City centers on Plaza Santa Ana's small iron bandstand and the evening of October 10th, 1925, when Panama City's landlords had raised rents by as much as fifty percent and thousands of families in the tenements around this square could not pay. It follows the Tenants League that formed in response, the rally the mayor banned, and the handbills the League printed anyway reading simply: yes, there is a rally. By half past seven that night the plaza was packed shoulder to shoulder, facing police gathered at the same kiosk that stands here today. The church behind you, consecrated in 1764, has watched this square erupt again and again since.
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