Panamá transitioned to democracy in 1990, right after the United States of America invaded the country on 20 December 1989. The transition to a new political regime, especially because of the traumatic way it happened, could have provided the moment for a political process leading to a new constitution. It didn’t. Even though there have been, for almost 30 years, calls for a new Magna Carta, the country has maintained the 1972 Constitution that resulted from the authoritarian military regime that was in power between 1968 and 1989.