Security in Central America today charged with the dramatic discovery of 513 immigrants crammed into trucks bound for the United States, stopped in Chiapas on Wednesday. The day before, the appropriate minister of Panama, Jose Raul Mulino (David, Chiriqui, 1959), was in Madrid to participate in a preparatory meeting of security strategies in the region, where trafficking in persons continues to grow and each After arriving from further afield.
Question: What is this new African immigrants who are watching? Answer: We have it all. Ranging from central Africa to South Africa, and from there shipped to Brazil. Tear away northbound. As I said a Canadian Ambassador to Colombia, nationals of Somalia are in Canadian facilities for family reunification.
There is a human rights issue, because they are victims of exploitation. One questioned in Panama that took two years to reach South Africa. Had been four years running. He lived in a shelter. In this aspect we have not received any cooperation from any country. Once the leaves Africa there are extra-, they call it I do not know by what.
We can not repatriate. P. And what happens to them? R. It is a problem, also of safety. Because you do not know what diseases they have. They also use the roads that the guerrillas had to go from Colombia to Panama. And can be used for drug couriers. The last time I checked was 30 people per month.
Are mixed. The last time they were Nepalese. There are Eritreans, Bangladeshis, Indians. I can not say that they are criminals. Many of these people have university education to speak three languages. P. What is the common security strategy in the region? R. Panama, unlike the rest of Central America, and drew a plan, the product of a consulting company we made the McKinsey & Company, since President Martinelli won the election.
We are the security forces in a deplorable state, versus a common drug-related crime in an ascending spiral that no one stopped in time and left to get where he is, with a rate of 21 violent deaths per thousand inhabitants. We've lowered from 23. We struggle against drug trafficking, a recovery of the border with Colombia, the Darien, which previous governments had neglected and the ELN used for retiring.
In some cases there were clashes. P. Does the guerrilla problem is solved in Darien? R. 80%. We still have a presence in the center of the ridge and into the Atlantic. But it certainly is quiet and clean Darien expect this year. It has been patrolling every day. Three or four cars of 30 or 40 men each day.
And taking the state's presence to those areas where there are no communications and have a subsistence economy. And it's quiet. All south of Darien to the Pacific is free of FARC territory. P. What is the main concern in security? R. Drug trafficking. We are the first frontier in Central America.
The 350 tons exported by the Colombian cartels to the USA went out of those beaches. When we clean the presence of the FARC have made you change your route. Instead of passing through the Gulf of Panama, now down to the south of Colombia and Ecuador and back up. According to U.S. data, has changed course 24% of cocaine production.
Colombia now produces an average of 1,500 tons of cocaine a year to supply the world. Hence, some 350 are for the U.S. market, including Mexico. The rest, to Europe or Asia, where prices already are out of dimension. In Panama two years ago cost $ 2,500 a kilo and there is at 4,500 or $ 5,000.
Fewer and fewer drugs, but obviously produces violence. A more and more employees are paid in kind, and the drug must be sold on the street. P. Does this not happened before? R. No. Panama has always been the territory of transit. Not that the street is flooded with cocaine, but has generated a problem that has existed and insecurity.
There are deaths, settling scores, assassins ... Before the crime was indigenous. Between 70% and 75% of homicides are related to the drug. With all that we have enough statistics below. P. What outside support they have? R. There is U.S. support, which is no big deal. There is more intelligence support and training from the United States and Colombia, which helps us a lot.
Colombia has vast experience and ability, has become a powerhouse in security. In money, cooperation should be around U.S. $ 10 million a year. We have spent 600 million budget in the first six months of government. P. Is Panama's fiscal reputation attracts drug money? R. That is more myth than reality.
In Panama, the banking system today is to exaggerated self-regulated. I said a U.S. official who took 42 days to open a checking account when I moved to Panama. Mexico's ambassador to cost him 38 days. I can not say they do not put goals. The drug buy brains and pays well. But there are times Noriega, when a truck came up with 14 sacks of money and the banks being booked.
Bags of money down in the movie Scarface. P. Do you have immigration from Venezuela? R. Yes, especially the strongest are multinationals based in Caracas and had been moved from today to tomorrow to Panama. Large companies that come with large amounts of highly paid executives. They call you, 'on Monday with 1,000 children going to school.
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Question: What is this new African immigrants who are watching? Answer: We have it all. Ranging from central Africa to South Africa, and from there shipped to Brazil. Tear away northbound. As I said a Canadian Ambassador to Colombia, nationals of Somalia are in Canadian facilities for family reunification.
There is a human rights issue, because they are victims of exploitation. One questioned in Panama that took two years to reach South Africa. Had been four years running. He lived in a shelter. In this aspect we have not received any cooperation from any country. Once the leaves Africa there are extra-, they call it I do not know by what.
We can not repatriate. P. And what happens to them? R. It is a problem, also of safety. Because you do not know what diseases they have. They also use the roads that the guerrillas had to go from Colombia to Panama. And can be used for drug couriers. The last time I checked was 30 people per month.
Are mixed. The last time they were Nepalese. There are Eritreans, Bangladeshis, Indians. I can not say that they are criminals. Many of these people have university education to speak three languages. P. What is the common security strategy in the region? R. Panama, unlike the rest of Central America, and drew a plan, the product of a consulting company we made the McKinsey & Company, since President Martinelli won the election.
We are the security forces in a deplorable state, versus a common drug-related crime in an ascending spiral that no one stopped in time and left to get where he is, with a rate of 21 violent deaths per thousand inhabitants. We've lowered from 23. We struggle against drug trafficking, a recovery of the border with Colombia, the Darien, which previous governments had neglected and the ELN used for retiring.
In some cases there were clashes. P. Does the guerrilla problem is solved in Darien? R. 80%. We still have a presence in the center of the ridge and into the Atlantic. But it certainly is quiet and clean Darien expect this year. It has been patrolling every day. Three or four cars of 30 or 40 men each day.
And taking the state's presence to those areas where there are no communications and have a subsistence economy. And it's quiet. All south of Darien to the Pacific is free of FARC territory. P. What is the main concern in security? R. Drug trafficking. We are the first frontier in Central America.
The 350 tons exported by the Colombian cartels to the USA went out of those beaches. When we clean the presence of the FARC have made you change your route. Instead of passing through the Gulf of Panama, now down to the south of Colombia and Ecuador and back up. According to U.S. data, has changed course 24% of cocaine production.
Colombia now produces an average of 1,500 tons of cocaine a year to supply the world. Hence, some 350 are for the U.S. market, including Mexico. The rest, to Europe or Asia, where prices already are out of dimension. In Panama two years ago cost $ 2,500 a kilo and there is at 4,500 or $ 5,000.
Fewer and fewer drugs, but obviously produces violence. A more and more employees are paid in kind, and the drug must be sold on the street. P. Does this not happened before? R. No. Panama has always been the territory of transit. Not that the street is flooded with cocaine, but has generated a problem that has existed and insecurity.
There are deaths, settling scores, assassins ... Before the crime was indigenous. Between 70% and 75% of homicides are related to the drug. With all that we have enough statistics below. P. What outside support they have? R. There is U.S. support, which is no big deal. There is more intelligence support and training from the United States and Colombia, which helps us a lot.
Colombia has vast experience and ability, has become a powerhouse in security. In money, cooperation should be around U.S. $ 10 million a year. We have spent 600 million budget in the first six months of government. P. Is Panama's fiscal reputation attracts drug money? R. That is more myth than reality.
In Panama, the banking system today is to exaggerated self-regulated. I said a U.S. official who took 42 days to open a checking account when I moved to Panama. Mexico's ambassador to cost him 38 days. I can not say they do not put goals. The drug buy brains and pays well. But there are times Noriega, when a truck came up with 14 sacks of money and the banks being booked.
Bags of money down in the movie Scarface. P. Do you have immigration from Venezuela? R. Yes, especially the strongest are multinationals based in Caracas and had been moved from today to tomorrow to Panama. Large companies that come with large amounts of highly paid executives. They call you, 'on Monday with 1,000 children going to school.
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