Con el propósito de realizar un aporte a la historiografía panameña, se ha realizado esta investigación que tiene como objetivo el presentar un Estudio Histórico de la Masacre de Cotito y su vínculo con las memorias y el olvido, en Renacimiento (1928-1953). Por medio del alcance descriptivo, se identifican las situaciones pasadas, presentes y futuras sobre este suceso histórico. Se realizarán entrevistas a diez personas de tercera edad, nacidas entre 1929 a 1953, relacionadas con este hecho histórico. Los sobrevivientes afirman que ni siquiera hubo una disculpa por parte del Gobierno panameño; y lo único que se ha hecho en honor a ellos fue develar una placa con una síntesis del hecho histórico y el nombre de los sobrevivientes en el lugar. Según las entrevistas aplicadas, se concluye que la Masacre de Cotito fue un hecho circunstancial; se manejan aproximadamente cuatro versiones: la mala comunicación producto de no entender el idioma, fue el factor más importante para que se dieran los hechos; el consumo de alcohol por los miembros de la Policía Nacional; la negativa de los colonos ante el registro de extranjería; ningún país extranjero tuvo injerencia directa en este desafortunado evento.This research titled Leaming Strategies and English Language Communicative Competences at official universities in the district of David (Universidad Aut6noma de Chiriqui and Universidad Especializada de las Americas) attempts to evaluate the teaming strategies used by tourism students as well as their acquisition of English communicative competence. It also proposes strategic guidelines that would facilitate tourism students their efforts to acquire, to leam and to develop English communicative competence. The paradigm of this research is a positive, quantitative, descriptive type. It is transectional, since the data was collected in a single moment, in order to analyze and to relate them. It is a field investigation where a direct observation was made and information was collected. The method used in the research was correlational and projective, explanatory, with a non-experimentaltransectionaldesign. In this research we worked with two variables: Learning strategies and communicative competence of the English language. The leaming strategies which influence the acquisition of English communicative competence were analyzed. These variables were studied in two universities: Universidad Aut6noma de Chiriquf - UNACHI - and Universidad Especializada de las Americas - UDELAS - in the undergraduate degrees in tourism. The units of analysis were made up of a totalof 175 students and 20 teachers From both universities and the information was collected using the survey technique. As instrument, two questionnaires addressed to the studied sample were used with five altemative answers: always, sometimes, almost always, almost never and never. It was validated through the consultation of three experts. Reliability was calculated by the Crombach alpha coefHlcient resulting in 0.97 for professors and 0.96 for students in both variables. It was concluded that teachers need to comply with the new strategies that generate teaming in students so that the communicative skills of English can be incorporated in a significant way in the students pursuing the degree in tourism. New leaming stmtegies for the achievement of communicative competence should be implemented. This research experience proposes "strategic guidelines for the acquisition of the English language in UNACHI and UDELAS", with a solid theoretical base that aims at offering a response to English professors and students of tourism of both universities so they would be able to communicate in English.