Panama Builds Smuggling Monitoring Facilities
November 3rd, 2009 | Published in Newsroom Alerts
November 2, 2009 - By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s government is building four air and sea monitoring stations to fight trafficking of drugs, weapons and migrants.
The bases are to be located on the Pacific coast on routes used to smuggle drugs and transport laundered money.
Assistant Interior Minister Alejandro Garuz said Monday the sites will be manned by the national police, border agents and other government agencies.
He says the bases are a completely Panamanian initiative and the United States will not be involved.
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