For many of you foreigners, this post will be confusing as you wonder who exactly Maru Galvez is. She is a young, educated Panamanian businesswoman widely known for her association to Playa Blanca (another thing Panamanians like) and various other successful projects in Panama.
Panamanians universally love Maru Galvez, so if you are ever in the position to name drop, it is always advisable to mention that you know “Maru Galvez.” This will always lead into the Panamanian saying that “they too know Maru Galvez” and then pointing out that Panama is a small world and everyone knows everyone. This second part is only partly true though. Panama is a small world, but not everyone knows everyone. Everyone just knows Maru Galvez.
If, for some reason, a Panamanian doesn’t know Maru Galvez, assume they have been living under a rock and don’t worry about their friendship.
Saying you know Maru is also safer than saying you know Gabo because people have mixed feelings about Gabo. Stick with Maru and you can’t lose! If you say that Maru invited you to one of her parties, that is bonus points. This advice will urge Panamanians to respect you and invite you to parties of their own. Simply because you both like Maru Galvez.
FAIL.
your list was kindof accurate until I read this one..
Oh my god! i dont know her but we have 40 COMMON FRIENDS!!! I’m SOOOOOOO lucky!!! … as you know, “Panama is a small world and everyone knows everyone”.
Pffff!! hahahahah I have to admit that this is a smart (and probably unsolicited) PR campaign, congrats.
loool. You hit this one dead on. When I came to Panama, a friend at home suggested I like up with her friend (Maru Galvez) and I did. She took us out to eat and then to Prive on Calle Uruguay where we got added “Maru” juice (ie. met tons of great people and were subsequently invited to a bunch of other stuff). Don’t know Gabu yet but Panama certainly is a small world. (For those of us who know Maru at least
I had never heard of Maru Galvez until I read this. From what I can see from some quick googling, she develops some pretty amazing property projects and is sales and marketing whiz. Her projects create jobs and she is interested and invested in Panamas future. She is also a bit of a tree hugger, stylish, educated and beautiful. Whats not to like?
Ursula Kiener Ford: Panamanians like her far more
hard to say who is more useless, Ursula or Maru!
Maru Galvez is an outstanding PR spokesperson for her father’s PLAYA BLANCA and NIKKI CLUB beach resorts. She is also very “simpatica” and quite good looking as well. She is a person the Panamanian “yeyecitos” like a lot.
As we say here: Ni en su casa la conocen…
Maria Perez, si no conoces Maruquel Galvez estas en nada. Ella es la persona que manda (o no) las invitaciones para las asistir a las elecciones de Miss Raka Taka en la Playa Blanca Beach Resort.
jajaj exactamente, miss RAKATAKA!! porque no se le puede llamar de otra forma
i dont know her
and im panamenian…
she has my second last name tho..
You jealous gay, and who the fuck are you?
who dem guial? hahaha
and Maru Galvez is????
Of course i know who is she.. but put her name in a list.. as a thing that panamanians like???
what kind of loser create this blog…
I don’t know her, I really couldnt care less about her accomplishments and I dont need to have her between my facebook contacts to be “popular”.
She wouldnt be where she is if is not because of daddy
dont know her
who´s that girl ????????
Im not cool, first new york and now this… crap !
ohhh panamanians shit….
“If, for some reason, a Panamanian doesn’t know Maru Galvez, assume they have been living under a rock and don’t worry about their friendship.”
HAHAHAHHAAHAHA, yo no conosco a esa guial, q carajo t crees gringo, LOL
“Saying you know Maru is also safer than saying you know Gabo because people have mixed feelings about Gabo. Stick with Maru and you can’t lose! ”
MMM. Sntimientos ncontraos cnmigo???
I was laughing as soon as I began reading this blog… WAS.
I don’t know Maru Galvez and I don’t give a hoot what panamanians may think about me not knowing who she is.
The typical panamanian is always asking – do you know “rice n peas”? If you answer NO… then they continue with the same shit — You mean you don’t know rice n peas, everone know rice n pease, how come you don’t know rice n peas, man, where have you been? Have you been hiding in some cave not to know rice n peas? You’re fucked up man!
At this point you’re just about to yell at the mother fucker and say, shut da fuck up, I don’t mother fucking know rice n peas, I don’t care to know the mother fucker, I don’t give a shit about the mother fucker, so give it a mother fucking break already — that’s why I don’t associate with mother fucking panamaniacs. Jajajajajajajaja
eso es todo lo que tu tienes? cuekiiiiito
who the hell are Mari Glavez and Kiener Ford? I am panamanian (34 yrs old – 3 living in US only) and I’ve never heard about Mari or Kiener.
You could try to become friends with them on Facebook. That is a good option if you are living abroad.
Wrong
What about U.S. beauty Brianna Meighan… she is almost a Panamanian icon by now.
Lol, how much did she pay for this article?
I’m what you call a “yeyesita” and i dont know who the hell is she, my friends neither… So this tells me, she’s a loser for asking you to talk about her or your dont know a fuck about panama.
Naomi, you could try to become friends with Maru Galvez on Facebook or maybe you could visit her restaurant/bar called Nikki Beach, one of the sexiest places to party in Panama. If you really are a “yeysita” you should definitely should know her.
If you don’t know Maru Galvez, I am afraid you are not a yeyesita at all, but rather a rakataca (or wannabe yeyesita)
Mi nombre es Naomi, Naomi Yamileth, te metes conmigo y te saco la gillette!!
Ursula, Maru and Brianna are the sweetest things. I love them.
Maru and Ursula both are well respected, intelligent, popular, beautiful, successful women.
Its typical of Panamanian culture to be jealous and petty though, so a lot of these comments make sense.
Jajajajajaaja I´ve never read so much crap in my life!
Don´t you guys wanted to spend your time in something more productive than idealizing a human being like this…
Come on… do something better with your lifes!
I do not have anything against this people…but I do not have to know them to be somebody…
When are you going to understand that we are all the same and belong to a unit…
This material things are temporal, cultivate what is worth it!
Good Luck with that!
Yamileth, Yajaira, Anjoli, Xiomara, Mari, Loca, Naomi, etc. I am afraid this post is not meant for you. it’s menat for the upper crust of Panamanian Society (ROFL)
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