We feel very positively about a possible solution to the migrant crisis in Costa Rica to be anounced soon by the authorities of the neighbor country, Panamanian Foreign Minister Isabel de Saint Malo told journalists.

She added that she is in contact with her Costa Rican counterpart Manuel Gonzalez and announced that other options are being handled with in the wake of refusals by Belize and Guatemala to receive the over 4,000 Cuban immigrants who were granted a temporary visa in Costa Rica.

De Saint Malo recalled that Panama has been historically a stage of migration waves coming from different countries and lamented that such large groups of people worldwide undertake dangerous journeys looking for improvements, in this case trying to get to the United States.

“Our country always secured huma treatment to the immigrants and sheltered them, she said, and even they acknowledge the difference compared to other territories because we try to protect them from people trafficking gangs and fulfill due controls.

IN remarks to journalists in San Jose today, the Costa Rican Foreign minister asked his neighbors in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador to stop the wave of Cuban immigrants beause his country is not in a position to receive more people.

Since late November, the capture in Costa Rica of a people trafficking ring triggered a crisis that started from the accumulation of people in the Panama-Costa Rica border and then in the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border, with the latter preventing the illegals from crossing.

In two statements about the issue, the Cuban Government reiterated that those wanting to return to the country will be able to do so, provided that they left the country legally, as happens with most Cubans stranded in Costa Rica.

Analysts have noted that the United States has not said a word about a solution to the crisis created by the encouragement of its Cuban Adjustment Act, which favors Cubans who enter the United States.

Besides, the United States favor the implementation of the “dry feet, wet feet” policy that admits Cubans immediately when they get to the US territory illegally after being denied a visa at the US Consulate for considering that person “ineligible” because she/he is likely to become an “illegal immigrant.”