Thousands of people used to cross the Darién Gap every day. Emerging from the rainforest, they would stop in small towns ...

By Maxwell Radwin METETÍ, Panama — Darién National Park covers around 575,000 hectares, or 1.42 million acres, of rainforest ...

NICANOR, Panama — Panama has unveiled a new effort to control illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap that spans its eastern border with Colombia. Hundreds of thousands of migrants ...

In a bid to block U.S.-bound migrants, Panama has installed barbed-wire fencing along the Darien Gap, sparking panic among migrants trying to cross the jungle that links South and Central America ...

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.

The number of migrants traversing the treacherous Darien Gap in the hopes of making it to the United States has plummeted as Panama’s right-wing President José Raúl Mulino cracks down on the ...

The Darien Gap was once largely untouched jungle running along the Colombia-Panama border, and thousands of Comarca Embera Indigenous people long lived off the land and winding rivers.

Panama's Darien Gap, a jungle which bridges Central America with the South American continent, saw a record half a million migrants cross last year seeking security and better economic ...

Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama’s migration ...

Migrants arrive to Lajas Blancas, Panama, after trekking across the Darien Gap from Colombia in hopes of reaching the U.S., Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. Credit: AP/Matias Delacroix ...

Tens of thousands of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and elsewhere risk their lives each month to cross the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama. Images from along the journey show the dangers ...

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.