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A Unicef official says that it is difficult to predict what will happen if Panama closes the Darien jungle to migrants, as promised in the election campaign by Panamanian President-elect Jose Raul Mulino. "It is very difficult to predict what will happen, but from the experience that exists in other places where barriers have been imposed, [migrants] tend to look for alternative paths that sometimes even put at greater risk those people who are crossing the border,” UNICEF's deputy representative in Panama, Vicente Teran, says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES