Christmas Plans

This year, my family is heading to Panama for Christmas, and I get to decide if I am joining them, or perhaps spending Christmas with other extended family or friends. And the decision of where to go is tough, and I am finding it difficult to make an objective decision. Until I saw an article recently about Panama, and I decided I would use what I could find in the news to choose a Christmas locale. This article in the NY Times describes the man who first noticed that poisonous diethylene glycol was in toothpaste, and went to great pains to notify the health authorities. But I can't decide if this bodes well or not for Panama. There is at least one conscientious man living there, but do I want to visit a country where the toothpaste is illegally imported from China and has anti-freeze in it?