Panama News » Darien News Panama » Darien: Panama sends 97 deportees from US to the Darien camp after they refused to return to their countries
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama transferred about one-third of the deportees from various nations it had received from the United States to a camp in its Darien province Wednesday, an area that became the ...
News Panama » Darien: Panama burying more migrant victims of brutal Darien Gap
AGUA FRIA, Panama (AP) — In an isolated cemetery in Panama’s Darien province, migrants who die crossing the most treacherous segment of their journey toward the United States are buried with a ...
News Panama » Darien: Panama’s Darién Gap sees increase in migrant crossings, data shows
Panamanian figures show at least 174,513 migrants crossed the treacherous Darién Gap, a mountainous rainforest region connecting South and Central America, from January to June 6 of this year. The ...
News Panama » Darien: Once a migratory highway, the Darien Gap has been left empty under Trump crackdown
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 ...
News Panama » Darien: Panama installs barbed wire to block migrants traveling through the Darién Gap
Panama has placed barbed wire across several routes in the Darién Gap, the country’s Ministry of Public Security said in a statement Thursday, in a bid to block migrants making their way north. At ...
News Panama » Darien: Panama's next president to shut down Darien jungle migration route
Panama is on the verge of a dramatic change to its immigration policy that could reverberate from the dense Darien jungle to the U.S. border. President-elect José Raúl Mulino says he will shut down a ...
News Panama » Darien: Migrants in Panama deported from US moved to Darien jungle region
Rights groups fear for migrants' safety if they are returned to violent or war-torn countries Panama receives non-Panamanian deportees under U.S. agreement Lawyer representing deported Muslim family ...
News Panama » Darien: Panama to shut down Darién Gap route in deal that will see US pay to repatriate migrants
New president José Raúl Mulino has vowed to close the route through which thousands of migrants travel to the US every year The US will cover the costs of repatriating migrants who enter Panama ...
News Panama » Darien: Panama and Colombia fail to protect migrants on Darien jungle route, Human Rights Watch says
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to ...
News Panama » Darien: Panama’s presidential frontrunner vows to ‘close’ Darién Gap
In announcement three weeks before election, José Raúl Mulino gave no details of how he would stop migrant flow Panama’s presidential frontrunner has vowed to “close” the Darién Gap, the swampy jungle ...