First group of migrants has been deported under agreement on migrant repatriations signed with the US in July.Panama has deported 29 Colombians with alleged criminal…
The Darien Gap is a dangerous stretch of land between Panama and Colombia. Each year hundreds of thousands of migrants cross in hope of reaching…
A family flees violence in Ecuador for the United States, but first they must enter the Darien Gap, a perilous jungle. Swanny Flores fled Ecuador…
Human Rights Watch has urged the two countries to ensure the safety of people crossing the dangerous migration route. Colombia and Panama have failed to…
Bajo Chiquito, Panama – For many years, residents in the remote Indigenous community of Bajo Chiquito, Panama, lived a quiet life. No paved roads lead…
Necocli, Colombia – Shortly after 8am, about a dozen Chinese migrants rush out the doors of Mansion del Darien, a rundown hotel a few blocks…
Record numbers have crossed the Darien Gap, a strip of jungle between Panama and Colombia once seen as impassable. The Central American nation of Panama…
Nearly 250,000 people have risked their lives crossing a perilous stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama. The number of migrants and asylum seekers who…
Deep in the Panamanian jungle, Venezuelan migrant Franca Ramirez was scrambling to reach higher ground as a rushing river broke its banks when something caught…
Rights groups and other observers have raised questions over a United States-led plan to stem the “illicit movement of people” through a dangerous jungle passage…
In November of last year, Jesús, a 33-year-old man from the Venezuelan state of Falcón, spent 10 days traversing the Darién Gap – the treacherous…