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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.
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.
The number of migrant children crossing the jungle between Colombia and Panama is up by 40%, Unicef says.
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 ...
In April the U.S., Panama and Colombia announced a 60-day mission to end the movement of migrants and drugs in the Darien, boost the economies and reduce the poverty of the jungle’s border towns ...
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.
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 robberies and sexual ...
At 20:57, Tocumen Air Traffic Control tried unsuccessfully to make contact with the flight until it received a radio message from a KLM DC-10 aircraft that was approaching the airport, reporting that they intercepted a distress signal from Flight 201's transponder in an area between the Colombian border and Darien Province, several kilometres ...