I had an opportunity to sit down and have lunch today with a couple of Panamanian young political activists who came to the US through the State Department International Visitor Leadership Program. Adolfo Tomas Valderrama is the Youth National Secretary for the Panamenista Party and Catibel del Carmen Franco is the Secretary of Women's Affairs for the Patriotic Union Party. The subject of discussion was grassroots politics and young people's involvement. But we talked about a lot of stuffs. I learned a few interesting things. Money creates scandal in French but not sex. Sex does it for the British but not money. Both of them will cause you great pain and trouble in these United States of America. Talking about corruption, which is plaguing Panama, we agree that once you are believed to be corrupted, you are done in the US but not in Panama. They told me another interesting fact I did not know was that Panama seems to not have any natural disaster. Hurricanes make landfall on the countries north and south of Panama but sparing Panama every time. They had a saying that God was born in Panama.