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Unauthorized migration through the Darien Gap jungle between Colombia and Panama has fallen by 97% between January and August 2025, a new report says, ...
(Photo by PRENSA CANCILLERIA COLOMBIA / COLOMBIA FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS OFFICE / AFP) / The foreign ministers of Colombia and Panama visited the jungle border of Darién, a route taken by thousands of ...
Ayaluz sits exhausted under the shade of a tent. Her feet are swollen and tender; her hands covered in scratches. She has just spent nearly eight days walking through the Darién jungle – a 100 ...
In the case of both the U.S.-Mexico border and the Darién Gap, the point has never been to entirely halt undocumented migration, without which the U.S. economy would naturally be up a creek. Rather, ...
Panama on Tuesday carried out its first migrant deportation flight funded by the United States, part of a widening effort to reduce the number of migrants traveling north through the region.
NECOCLÍ, Colombia — This town's Caribbean beaches used to fill up with tourists but there's no longer room. Instead, thousands of Haitian migrants who can't afford the hotels have pitched tents on ...
Panama’s border police dismantled on Wednesday an organization that trafficked Chinese migrants, facilitating a “VIP route” with fewer difficulties to cross the inhospitable Darién jungle on their way ...
All 15 suspects arrested were Panamanian, though authorities alleged they worked for Colombian gangs - Copyright AFP/File Albari ROSA All 15 suspects arrested were ...
PANAMA CITY — Migration through the Darien Gap dividing Colombia and Panama has declined significantly this month since Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino took office and ordered authorities to get ...
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 ...
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 ...