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Panama City (AFP) - The number of migrants passing through Panama on the way to the United States keeps climbing, far outpacing the record numbers reached in 2022, a top authority said Friday. "Today we add 227,000 migrants who have passed through our territory, and this month we are going to exceed the history-making 2022, when there were 248,000 migrants," Security Minister Juan Manuel Pino told reporters. Migrant passages are tallied at a border checkpoint in the Darien Gap, the muddy jungle that separates Panama and Colombia, which migrants traverse on foot as they head toward the United ...
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Panama City (AFP) - The United States will increase aid to Latin America to combat HIV/AIDS, First Lady Jill Biden said on Saturday during a visit to Panama. Biden made the announcement while visiting the Casa Hogar el Buen Samaritano -- "The Good Samaritan Home" -- a shelter east of Panama City for people living with HIV. Biden's spokesman Michael La Rosa said in a statement that the United States will send an additional $80.9 million to Latin America, $12 million of which will go to Panama. "The State Department is making an announcement for increased funding for PEPFAR," Biden said, referri...
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Guatemala City (AFP) - The son of Panama's ex-president Ricardo Martinelli was extradited Monday from Guatemala, where he was detained, to the United States to face charges of corruption involving Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, officials said. Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares was flown out of Guatemala City, where he had been held in a military prison, on a private jet bound for New York. Martinelli and his brother Ricardo Alberto were arrested at Guatemala Airport in 2020, at Washington's request, as they sought to board a flight to Panama. Both are wanted by the American justice ...
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Necocli (Colombia) (AFP) - Ahmed Kabeer fled his homeland of Sudan where he was tortured and traveled thousands of miles to find himself in a new hell: the ominous jungle that straddles Colombia and Panama. Unlike hundreds of thousands of other African migrants that crowd into precarious boats and launch into the Mediterranean Sea hoping to reach Europe, Kabeer's aim is the United States. "There is a route" through Latin America, said Kabeer, who has a huge scar on his left leg and walks with a limp. Kabeer is one of 23 people from the other side of the world who -- along with hundreds of Hait...
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