If you liked this story, share it with other people. In recent years, the area has received global attention as a migrant crossing route, with thousands of people from Colombia, Venezuela and other ...

Migrants line up to be transferred in canoes to the humanitarian shelters of Lajas Blancas, at the indigenous town of Bajo Chiquito, Panama, in September 2023. The U.N. rights office warned that the ...

Panama’s Darien Gap, once a hotbed for US-bound migrants, is now completely deserted as President Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown has been in full swing. Migrant crossings in the dangerous ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the dense, humid expanse of the Darién Gap — a forbidding swath ...

Each step here is a risk to life and dangers lurk not only in the form of wild beings, but also in familiar friends. A thin strip of land that connects North and South America is one of the most ...

What has been happening on the Darién Gap, one of the deadliest border crossings in the Western Hemisphere? Luckily, we have author Belén Fernández here to give us ...

More people, including a growing number of Venezuelans, are resorting to perilous crossings through the jungles of the Darien Gap in search of safety and stability, reports UNHCR, the UN Refugee ...