Some military friends and I were talking about the corruption in Panama one day and a Honduran born American friend said that it is no wonder that Panamanians were corrupt because we Americans taught them how. I lost it and told him that neither the Panamanians or any other Central American country needed any help from us yo learn corruption. Panama has been corrupt since the day Spaniards first stepped ashore here. They were colonized by men who had criminal backgrounds and no scruples at all.
Nothing has changed in five hundred years, to get anything done in this country you have to slip a few bills to the guy or gal waiting on you. Before all you American haters start your crap that the US is the same, I never had to pay a bribe to get anything done in the States. As bad as you think America is it is still the best country in the world.