Panama News » Darien News Panama » Darien » Commerce: Migrant Wave Disrupts Life in Panama’s Darién Gap
The roadless Darién Gap was for centuries an almost impenetrable and pristine strip of land connecting what is now Panama and Colombia, inhabited by the indigenous Emberá and Wounaan people. Now, tens ...
News Panama » Darien » Commerce: Panama’s New President Promises to Close Crossing for US-Bound Migrants
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Panama's newly elected President José Raúl Mulino has pledged to "close ...
News Panama » Darien » Commerce: 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 » Commerce: Migrant Smugglers Threaten Panama’s Darién Conservation Plans
Panama has announced an initiative to combat environmental degradation in the Darién Gap, but entrenched criminal groups in the region will make these measures difficult to implement. Panama’s ...
News Panama » Darien » Commerce: Panama launches operation in Darien jungle targeting organized crime and migrant smugglers
NICANOR, Panama (AP) — Panama launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia on Friday to combat criminal gangs and migrant smugglers involved in record-setting migration through ...
News Panama » Darien » Commerce: 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 » Commerce: The Darién Gap, a dangerous hellscape for migrants is also appealing to tourists
MEXICO CITY — Deep in the Panamanian jungle, Venezuelan migrant Franca Ramirez was scrambling to reach higher ground as a rushing river broke its banks, he said, when something caught his eye: a group ...
News Panama » Darien » Commerce: 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 » Commerce: EXPLAINER: Panama launches operation against smugglers in Darien Gap
NICANOR – Panama unveiled a new effort to control illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap that spans its eastern border with Colombia on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have ...
News Panama » Darien » Commerce: Migrant Crossings Through Panama’s Darién Gap Drop 41% in 2024
Some 302,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, crossed the Panamanian jungle of Darién in 2024 on their way to the United States, 41% less than the previous year, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino ...
News Panama » Darien » Commerce: Crossing the Darién Gap: Migrants Risk Death on the Journey to the U.S.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and elsewhere risk their lives each year to cross the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama. Images from along the journey show the dangers ...