Elsie Alvarado de Ricord

During her time in the Panamanian Language Academy, she was a linguistic mediator and made recommendations about certain words and Spanish idiomatic expressions.

She was in favour of the word "enantes", widely used in the Panamanian everyday lexicon, but rejected by a large number of people because it is considered an archaism.

Her argument was that the word "enantes" has never fallen into disuse in Panama, whereby, this term should not be censure, nor considered an archaism.

Likewise, she submitted her opposition to the elimination of the letters ch and ll from the Spanish alphabet, and defended her posture in the XI Language Congress in San José, Costa Rica and in Madrid in 1994.

The President of the National Writers Council, Mr. Dimas Lidio Pitty delivered during the ceremony: Elsie Alvarado is the most complete woman of letters in our cultural history.