A little more than a year ago, the small Panamanian river port of Lajas Blancas was filled with a crush of people trying to make their way to the United States. Now, the makeshift migrant camp has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino denied on Saturday that he requested U.S. military support to curb the migration crisis in the remote Darién jungle before Donald Trump returned to the White House, ...

Crowds of illegal immigrants who trekked through the vast jungle region between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap while making their way to the U.S. southern border left behind heaps of ...

VILLA CALETA, Panama — For centuries, the Comarca Embera people have fished and bathed in the Turquesa River, a jungle waterway flowing out of the Darien Gap. They’ve long been accustomed to changes ...

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 ...