No sólo le causamos daño al aire que nosotros mismos respiramos con las quemas sino también con los vehículos que botan gases tóxicos por no darle mantenimiento.

“We not only cause harm to the air that we breathe through the burning of fields but also through the toxic gases that our vehicles release when not well maintained.”

Imagínense que pasaría si deforestamos todo nuestros bosques y deja de llover en Panamá.  Se convertiría en un desierto. Y, ¿qué le pasaría a nuestro amado Canal?

“Imagine what will happen if we cut down all the trees in our forest!  It will stop raining in Panama!  Our country will begin to turn into a desert and what would happen then to our Canal?”

Proud of his Panamanian roots, Roberto was raised in Panama City until he left for the United States as a teenager, eventually graduating at Loyola University with a marketing and international business degree.

His passion for travelling and learning from other cultures brought him to live in Venezuela, Spain, Sweden; and in the US, California, Hawaii, Georgia, Tennessee and Louisiana. He moved to the island of Maui to fulfill a life-long dream to learn to surf and a few years later ended up writing several children’s books about surfing, ocean safety and skateboarding. You may recognize him as his charisma has landed him in three separate episodes of House Hunters International.

He also has produced a new environmental book in 2019 with the help of the Rotary Club of Coronado and other private donors. Mi Orgullo Panameño (My Panamanian Pride) is meant to teach the next generation of Panamanians to take pride in the country by cleaning up their neighborhoods, schools and beaches. It is an amazing book that has been adopted by the Ministry of Education and the intention is to give it away to all the public schools throughout the country.