Panama, Mexico Joint
Drug Fight
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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