STORY: Panama says it saw a drop in the number of migrants crossing the perilous Darien Gap in 2024. The land bridge links South and Central America and the people who cross it are mostly bound for ...

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 ...

Some 302,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, crossed the Panamanian jungle of Darién in 2024 on their way to the United States, 41% less than the previous year, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino ...

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, ...

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino is trying to stem the flow of migrants crossing the treacherous Darien Gap, a 70-mile stretch of jungle near... Panama's efforts to stop U.S.-bound migrants from ...

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 ...

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 ...

PANAMA CITY — Panama transferred 98 deportees from various nations it had received from the United States to a camp in its Darien province Wednesday, an area that became the main thoroughfare for ...