Over a million migrants trekked through this perilous route between 2021 and 2024, bound for the U.S. border. Panama says it ...

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Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said this Friday, June 6, that he has asked neighboring Colombia to assess the ...

More than 600 people were in the crowd that plunged into the jungle that morning, beginning a roughly 70-mile journey from northern Colombia into southern Panama. That made it a slow day by local ...

Authorities and protesters have been injured in eastern Panama where border police tried to open a highway blocked in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The same court stands empty in Lajas Blancas, Panama, Sunday, April 6, 2025, where migrants used to camp out after crossing the Darien Gap on their journey north to the United States. AP The boats ...

Panama’s José Raúl Mulino has appealed to a higher power: he called in an archbishop and a rabbi to deliver a message to ...

Migration through the Darien Gap — a remote area along the Colombia-Panama that sat largely untouched until it became the epicenter of 2021's crush of migration — has virtually vanished ...

"I won't allow Panama to be an open path for thousands ... large number of those making their way through the jungle of the Darien Gap were children. In the first four months of the year, 30,000 ...