What will Washington’s migratory agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama consist of? is a question highlighted by local media after the visit of Rubio through the lands of Francisco Morazán, Farabundo Martí and Omar Torrijos, to name a few visionaries and heroes of the region.

While Panama and Guatemala are profiled as places of transfer of foreign migrants, El Salvador would provide the service of imprisonment of foreign criminals, this Thursday the newspaper El Mundo indicated even without knowing the intricacies of Rubio’s appointments with the presidents.

Almost at the end of Rubio’s tour through the region, which will end today in the Dominican Republic, the United States has secured, although not signed, agreements with three countries to expedite the deportation of foreign migrants in irregular situation and even for foreign criminals to serve their sentence in another country other than their own.

Ceding sovereignty, accepting pressures and threats without complaining seems to have been a constant in the meetings in exchange for “aid”, in exchange for promises but, above all, in exchange for the politics of the stick to achieve “peace in exchange for force”, as apparently happened in Panama, observers believe.

The extension of a migration agreement of July 1, 2024 will allow Panama to receive foreign deportees in a southern province to transfer them to other countries such as Colombia and Ecuador. A military base will emerge.

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