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WATCH: Panama’s next president visits migrant camp at the Darien Gap
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July 2, 2024
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1:33Now PlayingPanama's president-elect José Raúl Mulino on Friday arrived at the jungle-clad province of Darien.
He was there to face one of his biggest challenges: controlling the world’s busiest migration route from South America bound for the United States.
The 65-year-old lawyer, who will take the reins of Panama on Monday, promised during his campaign to shut down the Darien Gap and has said he will deport migrants who continue crossing into the country.
But experts caution it will be a difficult — and expensive — task.
Mulino has also hinted that he will seek agreements with the United States at a time when reports of abuses, human rights violations and testimonies of deaths throughout the route persist.
More than half a million people crossed the migration corridor on the border with Colombia last year and it is estimated that some 186,000 people have crossed so far in 2024.
Most of the migrants hailed from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and China.
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