Panamanian authorities struggle to contend with a spike in the number of migrants risking the journey through the perilous Darien Gap.
In this May 10, 2019, photo, a group of migrants wait for buses to take them north, in Peñitas, Darien province, Panama. Panamanian authorities are struggling to contend with a spike in the number of migrants risking the journey through what's known as the Darien Gap, a roadless, lawless stretch of tropical isthmus that's one of the most dangerous stretches for people heading north from South America, usually toward the United States or Canada.
Panamanian authorities are struggling to contend with a spike in the number of migrants passing through what is known as the Darien Gap, a roadless, lawless region of tropical isthmus that is one of the most dangerous stretches for people heading north from South America, usually toward the United States or Canada.
Most in the surge in Panama are migrants from Haiti or Cuba, with smaller numbers coming from African nations such as Cameroon and Congo, plus the South Asian countries of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The Gap’s perils are numerous. Tales are common of robberies and sexual assault by marauding bands of armed Colombians and Panamanians, and encounters with the drug trafficking “mules” who walk the same paths as the migrants.
Emerging from the Gap, most migrants pass through the hamlets of Bajo Chiquito or Canaan Membrillo before making their way by foot or by boat along the Chucunaque River to Penitas. Nearly 1,200 more were back in Bajo Chiquito, he said, plus about 1,000 who had been bused to a temporary shelter in Chiriqui, near Panama’s western border with Costa Rica. The International Organization for Migrants said Costa Rica is allowing 50 to 100 of the migrants to enter each day.
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