Caribbean & Central America - June 2024

José Raúl Mulino, who served as Panama’s interior and security minister under right-wing former president Ricardo Martinelli (Cambio Democrático, CD, 2009-2014), won the 5 May presidential elections for Martinelli’s new outfit Realizando Metas. The first piece in the June 2024 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America considers two of the security-related challenges facing his new government: addressing public corruption and tackling unprecedented migration levels through the Darién Gap, the perilous jungle border with Colombia.

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