I'm much more optimistic. Panama went through a lot of years in military dictatorship, and they've had a fairly stable democracy now for several elections. Panama is now a place where, when we have elections, the man or woman the people vote for wins. There's not going to be a military coup or anything like that. It's a country that's stable now, that's democratic. It has challenges like everybody else, but it's not the Panama of those days, for sure.
On September 25th, 2012. See this statement in context.