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  2. Darién Gap - Wikipedia

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    The hazards are both those of traversing a difficult and dangerous jungle without tracks—the Darién Gap is one of the rainiest and most physically dangerous places on the planet—and, more recently, those of a lawless, unpoliced region with many criminals including drug smugglers, and sometimes political rebels.

  3. The Darien Jungle: A passage for desperate migrants | Opinion

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    Officials say that one out of five migrants who made the dangerous trek are young children, many traveling without their own parents. They said the crossing is made under horrific conditions.

  4. African migrants bound for US use Nicaragua to bypass Darien ...

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    African migrants and asylum seekers heading to the United States are flying into Nicaragua to bypass the Darien Gap, a dangerous jungle isthmus connecting Panama and Colombia, according to ...

  5. Rising numbers of migrants risk lives crossing Darien Gap - AOL

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    It was 5 a.m. and in dozens of small tents around 500 migrants began showing signs of life, rising, packing their bags and preparing to cross the Darien Gap, the thick jungle teeming with snakes ...

  6. Record half-million migrants crossed Latin America's ... - AOL

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    A record 520,000 migrants crossed the treacherous jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap in 2023, more than double the number reported the year before, according to government ...

  7. Human Rights Watch: U.S. policy is fueling migration through ...

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    The treacherous jungle is where many migrants begin their journey towards the United States, facing the threat of organized crime, dangerous animals and hazardous wilderness along the way.

  8. EXPLAINER: Panama launches operation against smugglers in ...

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    The Darien Gap earned its name because it is the break in the Pan-American Highway connecting South and North America. Darien is also the name of Panama’s easternmost province, which abuts Colombia.

  9. Migrants pass quickly through once impenetrable Darien jungle ...

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    Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border area separating Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled ...