In 2024, 300,000 migrants made their way through the Darién Gap. The incoming Trump administration has hinted that they want to close the Darién Gap The Darién Gap crossing is crucial to the ...

The Darién Gap, a perilous journey for millions of migrants, has also become a corridor for the northward spread of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly challenging decades of containment.

Migrant crossings through the once-overrun and dangerous Darien Gap have plummeted 99% under President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, The Post has learned.. Just 408 migrants were ...

Few migrants remain in the Darien Gap, but an environmental crisis has been left behind. Park rangers unload a container in Punta Patino, Panama, on April 5. (Matias Delacroix / Associated Press) ...

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 ...

PUERTO CARTÍ, Panama — They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S ...

Human migration through the Darien Gap connecting Panama and Colombia has fallen by more than 90% when compared with the same time last year, according to Todd Bensman, senior national security ...

Lifejackets hang at the home of a local in Villa Caleta, Panama, Monday, April 7, 2025. The jackets were once used to ferry migrants after their trek across the Darien Gap on their way north to ...

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 ...

In the last year-and-a-half, almost 700,000 people crossed the Darién Gap, a swampy jungle at the Colombia-Panama border, on their journey north, often to the United States. During their journey ...

Pandemic conditions fuel rise in migrants braving the Darien Gap. Last year, the PBS NewsHour brought you stories of migrants traveling through one of the world's most lawless and dangerous places ...

Award winning journalists Caitlin Dickerson and Lynsey Addario traveled to a 70 mile stretch of mountainous jungle terrain called the Darien Gap that has long been considered dangerous and nearly ...