
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino announced that U.S.-funded deportation flights for migrants apprehended at the Darien Gap, the heavily-transited route between the country and Colombia, will start on Tuesday, August 20.
Mulino told Univision Noticias has he "feels it in his heart," acknowledging that many people are "escaping" because the "Venezuelan crisis is asphyxiating them."