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...
Jeremy MacGillivray, deputy chief of the Mexico mission of the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration, predicts that Peruvian migration will drop “at least at the beginning” and bounce back as people shift to walking through the Darien Gap and to Cen...
In September, I went to the infamous Darién Gap.Over the last year and a half,more than 700,000 peoplehave traversed this unforgiving slice of jungle that divides Colombia from Panama. It is so riddled with violence and rape that women there told me they have to travel with the morning-...
Panama and Costa Rica have set up a bus system to speed the flow of migrants from the Darien Gap to Costa Rica’s border with Nicaragua.
Mora, who is currently unemployed, tried to reach the United States last year but got only as far as the foot of the Darien Gap, a treacherous stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama where migrants frequently die or go missing. He said he was about to attempt the journey when author...
into the migrant camps in the mouth of the Darien gap, through United Nations facilities, and alongside the programs to process and facilitate mass migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. In this, he sets out to answer key questions, of what is really behind the border crisis, and why is ...
border with his family, braving the treacherous Darien Gap. Bravo faced extra challenges after his wife gave birth to twins in Panama, making him a father just as they started their journey. Pushing a double stroller and carrying their lives in a few bags, Bravo and his family decided to ...
In contrast, those who decide not to stay in Colombia continue moving south towards the Ecuadorian border or north through the Darien Gap to enter Central America through Panama. According to the diagnosis carried out by the World Bank, the migratory flow into the Colombian labor market consists...
Over 300,000 migrants crossed Latin America’s Darien Gap in 2024, down 42% • Jan. 3, 2025, 10:24 PM ET (NBC) ...(Show more) São Paulo, BrazilThe densely populated city of São Paulo, Brazil.(more) Rapid population expansion has had important demographic and social effects. ...