The migratory flow through the dense jungle of Darién, during 2021, exceeded the figures that are regularly recorded every year.
According to the Foreign Minister, Erika Mouynes, since 2021 it has been followed up, led actions and received high authorities to give visibility to the co-responsibility of the problem, which affects the entire region.
And in that monitoring they found that last year more than 133 thousand people crossed through the Darién, a figure that is equal to the total number of migrants registered in the last 10 years.
This means that from 2011 to 2020 the average number of migrants who entered through this area of the country was 13,000 people, but the global crises increased the massive displacement of these migrants.
These figures were revealed during the Regional Conference on Migration (CRM) that ended today in Panama, after a work tour carried out yesterday in Darién, together with authorities from ten countries and International Organizations where they discussed safe, orderly and regular migration.
“Since the RCM is the longest-standing and most solid regional consultative process on migration in the Americas, it is timely to take advantage of and reinforce this space for multilateral dialogue so that together and in unison we can sit down to dialogue with the member countries of the South American Conference on Migration. to, among all, establish the priorities that allow us to find common and sustainable strategies over time to discourage irregular migration”, said the Foreign Minister, Erika Mouynes.
Mouynes explained that Panama proposed in December 2021, to hold a high-level meeting that would include a field experience on the progress of our migration and border management, in a context of emergency and crisis resulting from the pandemic, this was done reality through CRM.
