Just 408 migrants were recorded traversing the treacherous Panamanian jungle path in February — compared to the 37,166 seen ...

In the last 10 years, data from the IOM and the Missing Migrants Project reveals that at least 11,038 people have died along migration routes across the Americas Panama's government has released ...

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A stray dog walks in an empty migrant reception center that used to receive hundreds of people every day after they crossed the Darien Gap on their journey north to the United States, in Lajas ...

The Darien Gap is a dangerous stretch of dense jungle and swamp located on the border between Panama and Colombia. In recent years, it became a major route for migrants from South America, the ...

Now, the makeshift migrant camp has become a ghost town. More than a thousand migrants a day would cross the harrowing Darien Gap — a rugged jungle passage between Colombia and Panama.

Lajas Blancas, once a bustling migrant camp in Panama, is now nearly deserted following stricter U.S. migration policies. The Darien Gap crossing has drastically decreased, leaving migrants stranded ...