BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to robberies and sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Wednesday. The watchdog called on both countries to appoint high-level … Read more
MEXICO CITY — The flow of thousands of migrants daily through the treacherous migratory highway, the Darien Gap, has been cut off following the capture of a number of boat captains who had been ferrying the migrants to the starting point of their jungle trek. The stoppage began when Colombian law enforcement captured two boat … Read more
An unprecedented half a million people migrated north across the Darién Gap, a dangerous stretch of jungle between Columbia and Panama, this year—more than double the number last year—in a sign of an escalating humanitarian crisis, the U.N. recently reported. Laurent Duvillier, UNICEF’s spokesperson for Latin America and the Caribbean based in Panama, tells TIME … Read more
Panama and Costa Rica are facing a huge increase in the number of migrants moving through the jungle-clad Darien Gap ByThe Associated Press October 11, 2023, 1:43 PM A migrant shows their ID to Panamanian immigration officials upon arrival to Bajo Chiquito, Darien province, Panama, late Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, after walking across the Darien … Read more
BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama — Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border area separating Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled migrants stumbled out of the Darien jungle. Pregnant women and men carrying children atop their shoulders waded across the waist-deep Tuquesa river and into the … Read more
PANAMA CITY — The federal government of Panama stated Thursday it’s going to launch a brand new marketing campaign to stem the move of migrants via the harmful, jungle-clad Darien Hole, after crossings hit 300,000 to date this 12 months. As compared, lower than 250,000 migrants crossed in all of 2022. The plan, named “Darien … Read more