This is the important legacy of Lucho Moreno. Luis H. Moreno's departure forces us to look beyond the individual trajectory and ask what happened to the values that sustained the country's reconstruction. The country has grown, but the ethical demand seems to have weakened. It was not a slogan. Recovering trust in institutions was as urgent as stabilizing finances. From the National Bank, Moreno understood that public banking had to act with transparency, responsibility, and accountability. Promoting investigations into irregularities in the nineties was not a symbolic gesture, but a statement of principles: there is no reconstruction without integrity. Decades later, the contrast is concerning. After the dictatorship, Panama faced not only an economic but a moral challenge. And that's how it is: without values, no stability lasts. It was a practice. In one of his last interviews—given to La Prensa in 2024—he warned that crimes were beginning to be committed without consequences.
