Panama does not deport Venezuelans to their country of origin because the relations between the two nations are broken after the July 28 elections. Mulino President explained that the idea of sending them to Cúcuta is to establish a transit to Venezuela
The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, informed that they are studying the possibility of sending Venezuelan migrants to Cúcuta, a border city with Venezuela, given the impossibility of deporting them directly to their country of origin.
«Shipping to Venezuela, as I have said, is not feasible from Panama by us. We have no contact with the Venezuelan government. However, having given a repatriation from the United States (…) we are rehearsing possibilities so that now with that inverse flow we can fly them from Panama to Cúcuta, which is Colombian territory, and establish from there the transit, as appropriate and can, towards Venezuela, ”Mulino said during his weekly press conference.
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Panama analyzes to take Venezuelan migrants to the border between Colombia and Venezuela.pic.twitter.com/ewq8ubjvwm
«Shipping to Venezuela is not feasible from Panama by us. We have no contact with the Venezuelan government ». -…– Already report (@Reporteya) February 13, 2025
This situation occurs while an “inverse flow” of migrants occurs from the north to the south before the increase in restrictions by the United States authorities so that they cross their territory.
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Panama had already reported that he analyzed scenarios to deport Venezuelans, thus went to a third country, because relations with Venezuela are broken after the July 28 elections and the recognition of Edmundo González as elected president.
Venezuelan migrants were the ones who crossed the Darién jungle, with the idea of crossing Central America, and arriving in Mexico, to finally go to the United States.
After the return of migrants in the opposite direction, Panama and Costa Rica agreed last Tuesday, February 11, a series of measures to face that new migratory flow, which include taking these migrants to shelters installed on the common borders and in the Darien With Colombia, to subsequently repatriate them “by air or sea to their countries of origin,” according to Panamanian Security Minister Frank Abrego.
The Panamanian president announced that on the eve, 119 migrants of “the most diverse nationalities of the world” deported in the United States arrived to later return them on flights paid by the US to their countries of origin from Panama, which will act as “bridge” for those returns.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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