Miss Panama,  Rosa Montezuma, who will represent the country in the 2018 Miss Universe contest will be a speaker at two events in the US to commemorate the Indigenous Peoples World Day.

The model, from the community of Alto Caballero, Ngäbe-Buglé, will open the panel "Indigenous people's migration and movement at the UN headquarters in New York, on Thursday, August 9. The next day, she will be in Washington where she will be a speaker at the commemoration by the Organization of American States (OAS).