Comments on: The “Juega Vivo” Culture

By: Paging Martinelli: Why We Don't Do Business in Panama | Okke Ornstein in Panama

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:31:41 +0000

[...] that brings me to the third reason Panama is best avoided: The business climate is too scammy. Juega vivo rules this place. You can’t really trust anyone, the rules may change in the middle of the [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:42:42 +0000

Touché, my eight-armed friend!

By: Octopus

Octopus — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:36:19 +0000

“me-first” type of culture”, “of seeing what I can get out of any given situation” ha! Looks like you are describing any city in the United States. And by the way Roberto, you deserve it for trying to get an illegal phone with stolen minutes.

By: Rob Rivera is Part of the Problem — Rob Rivera - First World Mentality in a Third World Country Archive

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:17:17 +0000

[...] men and women can be if given the proper misguided incentive. I did a piece months ago alluding to “The ‘Juega Vivo’ Culture” which I think is a great piece, if a little rambly… it sparked from a post CaDs made just a [...]

By: Rob Rivera is Part of the Problem — Rob Rivera.com Archive

Rob Rivera is Part of the Problem — Rob Rivera.com Archive — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:58:43 +0000

[...] Just when I thought I wouldn’t have anything to talk about today, I am received by a Godsend resting comfortably in my email inbox. Ironically, I was going to publish a piece called “Panamanians and Education,” but then I saw this and I decided it would be a great preface to the article so without further adieu, here goes nothing: I’ve had the site up for a while now and I’ve become somewhat (in)famous for being someone who speaks his mind, and I do so in the most unconventional of methods with no subtleties or sugarcoating. I love it; I love that I have a space where I can speak my mind about everything that bothers me about me, the situations I’m in and my country in such a way that I can get a reaction out of people so that they do something in order to make their own situations better. In a way, that’s kind of the indirect results of blogging and I’m very happy that this site aces the reactionary aspect. Now, seeing as I’m stationed in Panama, a country whose first language is Spanish but most of the population with access to a computer has a passive knowledge/understanding of English due to our blooming economy and the subsequent job requirements it entails, I’ve ran into some readers that really loathe the things I say primarily because either a) people hate it when they’re called out on their defects, and b) they don’t understand the concept I’m trying to communicate in full because it’s in English and they’re native Spanish speakers, leading to grave misunderstandings. Today, I will address (once again) how irrationally stupid grown men and women can be if given the proper misguided incentive. I did a piece months ago alluding to “The ‘Juega Vivo’ Culture” which I think is a great piece, if a little rambly… it sparked from a post CaDs made just a few days prior or so and it got me to think so I naturally vented in this very public medium. Today I get a comment from someone named “Enuff is Enuff” saying the following: [...]