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#NewWorldReport: What can Colombia do to slow the migration? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

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#NewWorldReport: What can Colombia do to slow the migration? Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelans-vote-referendum-territory-minister-2023-09-24/


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0:00.0

This is CBSI and the World of the New World Report with Professor Avinellis of the U.S. Army

0:09.8

War College addressing migration, a worldwide phenomenon, putting an enormous pressure,

0:16.3

that's inadequate of a word, but it's what we use for diplomacy, enormous pressure on

0:20.6

sovereign states in Europe, the United Kingdom no longer in the EU, but pressed by people

0:26.2

coming through the EU, crossing the English Channel dangerously. We're addressing the

0:31.6

problem in the Americas, in Central America, and so are the states of Central America,

0:37.8

Costa Rica. Costa Rica's President Rodrigo Chavez will visit, visiting Panama's Dairy

0:45.4

and Gap in early October in an effort to contain a migrant crisis. This is from both countries,

0:52.0

Panama and Costa Rica, neighbors. Panama is Minister of Public Security and is Costa

0:57.9

Rican counterpart, visited communities in the dangerous stretch of jungle, most recently

1:03.5

where thousands of migrants pass each day. Thousands are surging across an extremely

1:09.5

dangerous triple canopy jungle, is no easily accounting for how many people are falling

1:15.6

by the wayside. These are children and pregnant women from all over the world, not just South

1:20.4

America, although they're dominated by Venezuela being driven out. Professor, I turn to you

1:25.6

not to comment just on Venezuela, but also on Costa Rica, here to four. I don't think

1:31.7

we've addressed Costa Rica directly. I've always assumed that it was a safe haven for retirees

1:37.9

from the United States and from other countries, and understood to enjoy the bounty of its

1:43.9

place in the world, and yet now we have its President going to the Dairy and Gap to see

1:49.5

for himself what we can tell him is already there. Thousands of people who want to traverse

1:55.1

Panama, traverse Costa Rica and make their way to Mexico, but he's saying that it's overwhelming

2:01.3

his governance. Do we have good relations with Washington and Costa Rica? Is that a good

2:07.6

relationship? It is a good relationship, John, and I will say that Costa Rica has consistently

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