Q COSTA RICA by Q24N
Q24N (EFE) The arrival of migrants in Panama through the dangerous Darién jungle, the natural border with Colombia, “has decreased considerably” after the implementation of the new United States immigration policy for Venezuelans.
This was stated Tuesday by the head of Panama’s National Border Service (Senafront), Oriel Ortega, who explained that after having registered peaks of “3,000 and 4,000” migrants in a single day in October, they are now arriving “between 1,000 and less”.
Panama is the gateway to Central America from the south of the continent for migrants headed to North America, and until last Saturday a record number of 204,986 people had entered the Darién, 71.8% of them Venezuelans, according to figures officers provided to EFE last Sunday…
