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Panama launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia on Friday to combat criminal gangs and migrant smugglers involved in record-setting migration through the perilous Darien Gap this year.
Security officials said Operation Shield is part of the agreement reached with the governments of Colombia and the United States in April to stop the flow of migrants through the border’s jungle-clad mountains.
Panama will use previously U.S.-donated helicopters to increase aerial patrols of the largely roadless region, but stressed that it was a Panamanian operation. The government will also send more special border police units into the area to try to root out the criminal gangs.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES TRILATERAL DEAL WITH PANAMA AND COLOMBIA TO STOP DARIEN GAP MIGRATION
Haitian migrants rest as they cross the jungle of the Darien Gap, near Acandi, Choco department, Colombia, heading to Panama, on Sep. 26, 2021, on their way trying to reach the US. (Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Officials dismissed any suggestion of closing the border. It was the first visible example of the efforts promised by the three governments.
Last year, nearly 250,000 people crossed the Darien Gap, nearly double the 133,000 who crossed in 2021, and a new record. That increase was driven largely by Venezuelans, who accounted for some 60% of the migrants crossing there last year.
In April, the United Nations warned that the unprecedented number of crossings to start the year – six times as many during the same period last year — suggested that some 400,000 migrants could cross this year.
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