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Panama City, Sep 21 (EFE).- In a joint operation on Tuesday, the authorities of Panama and Costa Rica arrested more than 40 people accused of being part of a migrant smuggling network.The arrests of more than 20 people in each country were the product of "more than a year of work," the director of Panama's National Border Service (Senafront), Oriel Ortega, told Efe. (Camera: CARLOS LEMOS). SHOT LIST: A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE JOINT OPERATION BETWEEN PANAMA AND COSTA RICA AGAINST MIGRANT SMUGGLING, IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA.
Madrid, April 19 (EFE). (Camera: Jesús Bartolomé / Tato Pérez) .- Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei is calling on the United States and Mexico to open their markets to help end mass migration with “structural change” that tackles the root causes of the issue. SOUNDBITES IN SPANISH OF THE PRESIDENT OF GUATEMALA, ALEJANDRO GIAMMATTEI, FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH EFE.“Migration happens because people don’t have healthcare, education, security, housing, or work. People don’t go there to visit Mickey Mouse, they go because they have to meet their needs, which is why we have to address the structural cause of migration"."It has to be done structurally, we cannot continue the current rhythm with aid that has not served much use, that in the end does not reach the community, does not make them more productive, does not give them access to the markets".
Guatemala City, Apr 15 (EFE), (Camera: ESteban Biba) .- Central American children who migrate to the United States are "skin and bone" with high rates of malnutrition, warns the director of the Casa del Migrante in Guatemala City, the priest and Brazilian missionary Mauro Verzeletti.Translation: Malnutrition rates in Central America are extremely high. Here we have a doctor who does the entire reception protocol for people migrating, children have high rates of malnutrition. We are talking about children who are skin and bones, who are migrating in this condition. And this is terrible for the development of a child, a teenager who has nothing to eat in their own home. This context worsens directly because they do not have money to pay rent or to eat and we are having a large number of people mobilizing on the street. The new homeless people are going to be migrants.
Bajo Chiquito (Panama), Feb 12 (EFE) (Camera: Carlos Lemos).- "We come from Brazil and Chile. We are looking for a good life.", said Evans Paul Pierre, a 33 year-old Haitian who, along with dozens of fellow citizens, arrived in Panama through the Darien jungle, the dangerous route they use to try and reach North America.Evans' destination is Mexico. He travels with his 6 year-old son, who lost his mother. She died of Covid-19 back in Chile, the young mechanic, who left his country last January, explained with his limited Spanish.FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE CROSSING THE JUNGLE AND A RIVER IN BAJO CHIQUITO, PANAMA.
Panama, Jan 22 (EFE) (CAMERA: Carlos Lemos) .- "We are already desperate," Jairo Gago, a 41-year-old Nicaraguan stranded in Panama because of the COVID-19 pandemic, told EFE.
US Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, alongside family members, walk along this year's non-traditional inaugural parade route, heading toward the White House, in Washington, DC. IMAGES