Panama will deport US-bound migrants who enter the country through the notoriously dangerous stretch of jungle known as the Darien Gap, president-elect Jose Raul Mulino said Thursday.
"In order to do away with the odyssey that is the Darien Gap ... with international aid we will begin a process of repatriation, in full compliance with the human rights of all the people there," Mulino said in a speech to the election body that formally declared him president after last Sunday's polls.
They face dense jungle, treacherous terrain, wild animals and violent criminal gangs that extort, kidnap and abuse them. But Mulino, a conservative lawyer aged 64, pledged during the election campaign that he would shut it down. Most Panamanians believe Martinelli will wield control from behind the scenes, according to a recent poll.
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