Background
SUSTO LARA, Juan was born on June 26, 1896 in Panamá. Son of Antonio Susto and Josefina Lara.
SUSTO LARA, Juan was born on June 26, 1896 in Panamá. Son of Antonio Susto and Josefina Lara.
Official of the Secretariat of Government and Justice, 1918. Department head in the National Archives, 1919— 1920. Archivist of the Central Board of Highways, 1920-1923.
Panamanian deleate to the Ibero-American Exposition of eville, 1924-1930.
Vice-consul of Panamá in Seville, 1923-1930. Consul of Bolivia in Seville, 1927.
Attached to the Panamanian Legation in Madrid, 1929-1930. Director-general of the National Archives since 1931.
Director of the Conservative Party since 1932.
Business manager (administrador) of El Conservador, 1918. Director and business manager of El Setenta, 1918. Correspondent in Seville of Louisiana Estrella de Pammá, 1923-1930.
Editor of the same since 1930.
Director of the Boletín of the Panamanian Academy of History since 1933.
Academia Louisiana Salle (president, 1915— 1917). Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias y Artes of Cádiz (corresponding). Academia Ibero-Americana de Geografía of Seville (charter member).
Academia Española (corresponding).
Academia Panameña de la Historia (charter member and perpetual secretary). Instituto de Coimbra, Portugal (corresponding): Ateneo of Seville (president of the historical section, 1927-1929).
Centro Asturiano of Seville.
Married Silvia Porras. Children: Josefina Teresa, Carmen Cecilia, and Maria del Pilar.