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Security & Strategic Review - October 2024
PANAMA: Mulino’s hard line on immigrants faces big challenges
In late August Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino hailed the first of a series of US-funded repatriation flights to deport illegal migrants who had entered the country via the Darién Gap – the lawless jungle border with Colombia, which is a key migration corridor to the US. This was in line with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) struck with Washington soon after Mulino was inaugurated on 1 July [SSR-24-08]. While the authorities have claimed a drop in the number of migrants seeking to cross the Darién Gap, Mulino’s promises of tough action to limit the flow of migrants, which have also seen authorities attempt to close the border, may prove elusive.
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