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 News from Around the Americas | January 2008 
Panama, Mexico Joint Drug Fight
 Prensa Latina
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| | From left to right, Mexico's president Felipe Caldeon, Colombia's president Alvaro Uribe, Costa Ricas's president Oscar Arias, Panama's President Martin Torrijos, El Salvador's President Tony Saca, Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian, Honduras's president Mel Zelaya, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega attend the inauguration of Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom in Guatemala City January 14, 2008. (Reuters/Daniel Aguilar) | | |
Panama City - Panama and Mexico agreed to strengthen cooperation in their anti-drug struggle, Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis reported in an official note published on Thursday by his office.
The Panamanian foreign minister revealed that the issue was dealt with in a conversation by President Martin Torrijos with his Mexican peer Felipe Calderon in Guatemala, during that country's presidential inauguration.
Lewis announced that Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa would pay an official visit to Panama to analyze the progress made in the joint struggle against drug traffic.
These talks allow to extend coordination and information exchange with Mexico and the rest of the regional countries to stop the problem of drugs and dismantle drug traffic networks.
Lewis highlighted the results of the anti-drug struggle in Panama, and mentioned the harsh blows to Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, as well as seizure in 2007 of 56.4 tons of drugs, five times more than in 2006. |
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