More than 127,000 people in mobility heading to the US arrived in Panama The Red Cross warned this Thursday that the avalanche of migrants who are arriving in Darién, in Panama, on their irregular route to North America , “overflows the humanitarian service points” where the organization is present, and asked for more international support to address this crisis. without precedents. “Despite all…
The security forces of Panama and the Bravo Task Force of the Southern Command of the United States have been carrying out a “humanitarian exercise” since Saturday in Panamanian indigenous areas, including those located in the province of Darién, the natural border with Colombia that thousands of people cross. of migrants traveling irregularly to North…
The United States “is investigating” the discovery in a jungle area of Panama of two helicopters, with apparently US military inscriptions, which have intrigued locals and visitors for years. These debris are on the Chucantí hill, within a private reserve of the same name and which is located on the limits of the provinces of…
So far this year, a record number of 78,585 migrants have crossed the dangerous Darién jungle on foot, the natural border that divides Panama and Colombia, which is five times more than the figures registered in 2022, according to an alert this Saturday by the Ministry of Panamanian Public Security. With a week to go…
Commissioner Ascanio Ellis, Senior Officer of Migration Border Management, together with the director of the Transit and Land Transportation Authority (ATTT), Carlos Ordóñez, made a tour this Thursday to observe the mobility process of irregular migrants who are in the Temporary Migratory Reception Stations (ETRM), in the province of Darién. Both Commissioner Ellis and the…
https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/darien-gap-feature/ CONTENT NOT written by JB. The Pan-American Highway is an epic 19,000-mile route that starts at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska and terminates at the southernmost end of South America in Ushuaia, Argentina. It’s continuous except for a small section missing along the southern border of Panama, often referred to as one of the most…
In the first three months alone, almost 66,000 people have crossed the jungle The migratory crisis worsens and may reach record numbers this year. Almost 66,000 people have crossed the jungle in the first three months of 2023 alone, which is why specialists in migration issues consider that it is time for Panama to seek…
Panama reported this Friday “a drastic decrease in the flow of irregular migrants, mainly Venezuelans,” who arrive in the country through the Darién jungle, the border with Colombia, through which 208,866 people have entered so far this year, an unprecedented figure. “In the last three days, only 2,292 people have entered through the irregular route,…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/nacional/220922/nino-venezolano-muere-asalto-migrantes-zona-darien-panameno?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc A 6-year-old Venezuelan boy died and 2 people were injured during an “assault” on a group of migrants in transit to North America in an area of Darién, the dangerous jungle that serves as a natural border between Panama and Colombia, authorities reported Wednesday. Panamanian. The National Border Service (Senafront) of Panama said in…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/nacional/220906/cientos-ninos-migran-solos-selva?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc A 60-year-old Venezuelan man was traveling with two children, ages four and five. They were not his children of him. They were from a Haitian woman he had met during the migratory journey in the dangerous jungle of Darién, in Panama. She handed them over because she didn’t have the strength to keep walking. In the humid tropical…
