BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama — No roads lead to this tiny Indigenous community deep in the jungle of the Darién Gap, where a tsunami of U.S.-bound migrants has abruptly slowed to a trickle. The only way to ...

JAQUE, Panama — As the boat bounced across choppy Pacific waters, Mariela Gómez and her two children huddled for 17 hours on top of sloshing gas tanks, uncertain of what lay ahead in the dense jungle.

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino delivers a speech on Wednesday during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. NEW YORK CITY, Fla. — Panamanian ...

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 ...

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 ...

The number of child migrants who crossed the treacherous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama has spiked, the United Nations Children's Fund said Friday. UNICEF said that in May 2021, 500 children ...

How a small town in Panama was affected by US-bound migration The village of Bajo Chiquito in Panama's Darien Gap once hosted thousands of U.S.-bound migrants, but that's changed. This story was ...