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The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, September 26, 2024, p. 31
New York. Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said yesterday during the United Nations General Assembly that his country does not have the international support necessary to confront the migration crisis in the Darién jungle, on the border with Colombia.
We feel that we do not have all the international support that is required to deal with a situation that is so distressing from a humanitarian point of view, so costly financially, so alarming due to the environmental devastation that is left behind, and so risky for our security.the president said.
He pointed out that his country needs concrete cooperation and frontal work to prevent them from using its territory. like the beginning of a dream, which is often generated by criminal organizations linked to drug trafficking and human trafficking..
He recalled that more than half a million undocumented immigrants entered the Darien border, a dense jungle shared with Colombia, in 2023, a number equivalent to 12 percent of the total population of Panama.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who is also attending the meeting, supported a proposal by his Panamanian counterpart to build a single migration route through the jungle.
They (Panama) want to build a single legal route, controlled by both governments, which should have incentives so that those who want to pass choose that route and do not end up in the hands of the mafias. I think that is an idea that we can continue to build.he commented.
The United States, on the other hand, will disburse more than 685 million dollars to help Latin American countries welcome migrants, announced the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, during the meeting of the Los Angeles Declaration, a migration alliance created in 2022 during the Summit of the Americas.
In turn, the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, stressed before the Assembly that Respect for the will of the Venezuelan people is imperativeafter President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of the July 28 elections
