This Saturday, April 11, Roberto Motta Alvarado passed away, an entrepreneur with a career linked to various sectors of the corporate and social sphere in Panama. He was a shareholder and director in entities such as Banco General, La Prensa, ASSA Compañía de Seguros, Gold Mills, and Calox. He also participated in the founding of Santa María La Antigua Catholic University and was a member of the Rotary Club of Panama Sur. His loved ones remember him as a man focused on work, faith, and his country, whose career integrated the business world with education. The opportunity to venture independently presented itself in 1967 when he acquired a small perfume and cosmetics distribution company belonging to his uncles Arturo and Alberto Motta. From that base, he founded Agencias Motta, S.A., which initially operated on Avenida Central from 1967 to 1969. He was married to Marianela Stanziola González Revilla, with whom he had four children: Roberto III, Emily, Liz Marie, and Félix Miguel. He was president of the Association of Business Executives, director of the Chamber of Commerce, and an activist of the Civil Crusade. His funeral will be on Monday at 10:00 a.m. at the Parish of San Lucas. In 1970, he moved to Vía Frangipani and later to the area of the Urbanización Industrial, in Los Ángeles. On different occasions, he mentioned figures such as his father, Roberto Motta Cardoze, as well as Federico Humbert Azcárraga and Roberto Eisenmann Jr., as his references. Roberto Motta Alvarado was born on August 26, 1939, the son of Roberto Motta Cardoze and Dora Alvarado de Motta.
