A little more than a year ago, the small Panamanian river port of Lajas Blancas was filled with a crush of people trying to make their way to the United States. Now, the makeshift migrant camp has become a ghost town.More than a thousand migrants a day would cross the harrowing Darien...
The Darien Gap: Panama's new president moves to close deadly jungle migrant route in crackdown Within minutes of taking office, Jose Raul Mulino's government signed a deal with Washington, which would see the US pay the deportation costs of those entering the Central American...
Ones Armonte, a 36-year-old migrant from the Dominican Republic, paid for the motorcycle ride. Within an hour he was at the edge of the rainforest where a seven-day trek across the jungle awaited him. “We depend on God’s will now,” he said. “Nobody wants to face the risk ...
PANAMA CITY, July 24 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 undocumented migrants drowned when a sudden rush of river water swept them away as they were attempting to cross Panama's Darien Gap on foot, the National Border Service said Wednesday. According to the National Border Service, the Public ...
An unidentified Eritrean migrant talks to producer Adam Yamaguchi along the migration route through the Darien Gap.CBS News We were just ready to leave camp when we saw yet another migrant group. It's a big one, probably about 20 or so. ...
PUERTO CARTÍ, Panama (AP) — They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S. Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and...
But he expressed doubt that Colombia's security forces have the capacity to dramatically affect migrant smuggling because the country's armed groups profit from it and are "very sophisticated." The Darien Gap is among the most dangerous portions of the long route to the U.S. borders. Migrants...
The last big push to bridge the Darien Gap began in 1971, when the United States pledged to finance two-thirds of the project’s cost. The engineering feat would take 10 years, it was estimated. Plans were suspended, however, because of pressure from the Sierra Club and other environmental...
The Darien Gap: Panama's new president moves to close deadly jungle migrant route in crackdown Within minutes of taking office, Jose Raul Mulino's government signed a deal with Washington, which would see the US pay the deportation costs of those entering the Central Ame...