{"id":54001,"date":"2024-07-02T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54001"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T05:00:39","slug":"panamas-new-president-vows-to-end-migrant-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54001","title":{"rendered":"Panama&#8217;s new president vows to end migrant &#8216;transit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jose Raul Mulino was sworn in Monday as Panama&#8217;s new president, with the right-leaning leader pledging to make his Central American country no longer a &#8220;transit&#8221; point for US-bound undocumented migrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mulino, 65, was elected in May after a campaign in which he vowed to close the dangerous migration route through the Darien jungle between Colombia and Panama.<\/p>\n<p>More than half a million undocumented migrants passed through the so-called Darien Gap last year &#8212; subject to abuses criticized by rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, after taking the oath of office, he said Panama &#8220;cannot continue to finance the economic cost of illegal migration&#8230; Panama will no longer be a transit country for illegal immigrants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has previously promised to deport migrants bound for the United States who enter Panama illegally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Raul Mulino was sworn in Monday as Panama&#8217;s new president, with the right-leaning leader pledging to make his Central American country no longer a &#8220;transit&#8221; point for US-bound undocumented migrants. Mulino, 65, was elected in May after a campaign in which he vowed to close the dangerous migration route through the Darien jungle between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1885],"class_list":["post-54001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-panamas-new-president-vows-to-end-migrant-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}