Panama News » Darien News Panama » Darien » Life: 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 » Life: 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 » Life: Map Shows Where Migrants Could be Cut off from Darien Gap in US-Panama Deal
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. With over 170,000 people passing through a notorious jungle pass in ...
News Panama » Darien » Life: 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 » Life: If Panama Closes the Darién Gap, Would Evangelicals Care?
(UPDATED) Migrant rights have been off-radar for many Panamanian Christians. But as pressures increase, some are speaking out ahead of this weekend’s general elections. Update (May 6, 2024): José Raúl ...
News Panama » Darien » Life: 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 » Life: HRW: Colombia, Panama Failing Migrants in Darien Gap
The treacherous Darien Gap, a dense and lawless jungle straddling the border between Colombia and Panama, has become a perilous passage for hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking a better life in ...
News Panama » Darien » Life: Panama’s Darien Jungle Called “Risky But Necessary” For Migrants
Upon crossing the Tuquesa River, Venezuelan migrant Marcel Maldonado broke down in tears after having crossed the inhospitable Darien jungle on foot with an orthopedic leg, on the border between ...
News Panama » Darien » Life: Biden-Harris open border is destroying an indigenous tribe’s land and way of life
METETI, Panama — Not far from this small town, the 19,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway ends at a wall of jungle — the Darien Gap, a notorious wilderness that stretches from Colombia into Panama. In ...
News Panama » Darien » Life: Panama halts migrant aid in Darien jungle: MSF
In 2023, a record 520,000 people crossed through the Darien, 120,000 of them children - Copyright AFP JACK GUEZ In 2023, a record 520,000 people crossed through the ...