Juan Carlos Navarro, appointed Minister of the Environment by the elected president, José Raúl Mulino, pointed out that his position with respect to the mine has not changed “My position with respect to the mine has not changed, I detest the mine,” he said in his first statements to the press.
“This is a problem that the president has already defined and now has to be studied very carefully where we are, my position is always to defend nature and that there be an orderly closure of the mine,” said Navarro.
Regarding the environmental crisis in the world and in Panama, he considered that the natural heritage must be defended and development must be sustainable, protect natural forests, recover degraded environments, guarantee the country’s hydrographic basins, recover degraded hydrographic basins.
I also consider as a serious problem to resolve the migratory crisis that is affecting the Darién jungle and the situation of the Cerro Patacón landfill, which in recent months has suffered from fires that have affected the health of people in the capital city.
