Gonzalo López Rodríguez

Male25 November 1933–17 March 1999

Brief Life History of Gonzalo

Gonzalo López Rodríguez was born on 25 November 1933, in Calobre, Veraguas, Panama. He died on 17 March 1999, in Aguadulce, Coclé, Panama, at the age of 65.

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    World Events (3)

    1977

    Age 44

    President Jimmy Carter and General Torrijos sign the Panama Canal Treaties.

    1984

    Age 51

    The Panama Defense Force(PDF) wins most of the seats in the Legislative Assembly with General Manuel Noriega at the head of the PDF.

    1989

    Age 56

    United States President George Bush orders the U.S. military into Panama. Noriega surrenders on December 27. Panama's Electoral Tribunal confirms the victory of Guillermo Endara in an earlier presidential election, the results of which had been declared invalid by Noriega.

    Name Meaning

    Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Ramon, Mario.

    Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope ‘wolf’. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames. In the US, it is the twelfth most frequent surname. Compare De Lopez .

    Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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