Migrants line up to be transferred in canoes to the humanitarian shelters of Lajas Blancas, at the indigenous town of Bajo Chiquito, Panama, in September 2023. The U.N. rights office warned that the ...
A year after the migrant route between Colombia and Panama fell into disuse, the towns that lived off migrants in transit are now advertising their beaches and lush rainforest ...
VILLA CALETA, Panama — The face of U.S. President Donald Trump flashes on the flat-screen TV that Luis Olea bought with the money he earned ferrying migrants through the remote Panamanian jungle ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Way back in “ye olden days” of the mid-2000s, I was still a wide-eyed, fresh-faced backpacker looking to travel the world. The ...
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It is part of a project on reverse migration by Arizona Republic reporter Daniel Gonzalez and El Paso Times visual journalist Omar Ornelas. BAJO ...
VILLA CALETA, Panama (AP) — For centuries, the Comarca Embera people have fished and bathed in the Turquesa River, a jungle waterway flowing out of the Darien Gap. They’ve long been accustomed to ...
They crossed oceans to get to the U.S., fleeing conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Cameroon, China, Pakistan and Iran. After ...