Child migration through the jungle of the Darien Gap has become a protracted crisis. Based on the trends observed in the first four months of 2024 and the regional context, UNICEF estimates that 800,000 people, including 160,000 children and adolescents, could cross the jungle in 2024. "The ...
Darien Gapimmigration/international migrationrefugee studiesAs the only land bridge connecting South and North America, the Dari茅n Gap has become one of the most widely used migration paths in the Americas. It is also one of the deadliest. Fleeing poverty, economic, political and social ...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — The United States, Panama and Colombia announced Tuesday that they will launch a 60-day campaign aimed at halting illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap, where the flow of migrants has multiplied this year. Details on how the governments will try to curb the ...
Most travel through the Darien Gap, a dayslong trek across the rugged Colombia-Panama border. The crossing was once so dangerous that few dared to attempt it, but now so many migrants flood through its dense jungles that it’s rapidly become a migratory highway similar to the trains winding...
For those that don’t have the money, they will have to walk back through the Darien Gap jungle, the perilous land bridge between Central and South America that many crossed just months before. It’s entirely possible that February numbers will reflect that, for the first time, more migrants...
The US and Panama struck an agreement last year under former President Joe Biden to address the flow of migrants coming through the Darien Gap that included equipment, transportation, and logistic support. The passage, which remains a priority for the Trump administration, is expected to come up...
Mexico and other governments to impose visa requirements, making it harder for Venezuelans fleeing their country to fly to Central or North America. For many, the only option left has been to travel by land — often across Colombia toward Central America, through the perilous Darién Gap. ...
Angelys and her daughter are among more than 420,000 migrants to cross the Darien Gap this year. They wind their way through Central America and Mexico to the U.S.-Mexico border, where U.S. authorities say they’ve stopped migrants more than 1.8 million times in the...
that plays to Biden’s faith in the power of global diplomacy, and one that also may hold more promise for making progress, particularly as smuggling networks increasingly steer migrant families from around the world up through the dangerous and often deadly Darien Gap between Colombia ...
Sandra (second from left) had been told the journey through the Gap would be simple. Benita, who had twisted her knee early on, being pulled up a step Wajid, Waseem, Nihal, and Hussain had watched YouTube videos before the trip and made sure to pack cookies, nuts, and Red Bulls. San...