Stanley Motta, president of Copa Airlines, highlighted the importance of young people in Latin America to move forward the region that has serious problems, including unemployment. During the Ceapi Congress in Cartagena, the director gave some keys for the countries of the region to emerge from their lethargy.
“We have to talk about the 30 million boys who do not have jobs. If we leave them on the street we can lead them to join gangs. Giving them opportunities is getting them off the streets. It is the best investment we can make,” Motta highlighted.
The Copa president assured that the realities of young people must be clear. “In Panama there are many young people in the assembly: 20 out of 71. When asking some citizens why they voted for the young, people responded, ‘I vote for them against the old.'” For this reason, Motta emphasized, “you have to know them,” says Semana.
Likewise, Motta identified major problems such as water, garbage, security, public transportation, work, education, housing and health, and that only one has been solved: communication: “Everyone has a cell phone,” he concluded.
Finally, he referred to territorial governance, in which centralization with delegation must prevail, since, as he mentioned, that is the real problem in Latin American countries, which prevents the regions from raising their wings.
Motta has assets of 1.1 billion dollars, equivalent to 1.4% of the annual wealth generated by Panama, whose GDP in 2023 was close to 80 billion dollars, as I advance. REPORTUR.co (Owner of Copa monopolizes 1.4% of the annual wealth generated by Panama).
