Record half-million migrants crossed the Darien Gap jungle between Colombia and Panama | DW News
A record number of people headed from South America towards the US border last year facing disease and violence along the way and a perilous jungle Crossing it takes days to walk through the Daran Gap 100 kilometers of jungle between Colombia and Panama many of those making the trip of children who sometimes lose
Their parents along the way an estimated 500,000 people fleeing violence and poverty in their homelands made the Crossing in 2023 DW has been speak speak with some of them this is bajo chikito Panama the First Community where migrants arrive after walking for about a week Through the Jungle of the Daran
Gap hundreds of people arrive here every day the villagers pick them up in canoes laoren left her home in Venezuela with her husband three children and in-laws they spent some time in Peru before deciding to make the Trek North toward the USA the trip through the jungle was brutal she says they saw
Terrible things they told us that we would find the canoes at a certain point they lied we had to walk four days in the jungle and on the way we saw Dead and Bloated bodies of people and of animals after signing in with Panama’s immigration authorities many come to the
Makeshift Health Center most suffer from severe dehydration bruises and gastrointestinal ailments Lauren’s husband has stones in his foot and her daughters have rashes and fungal infections her baby has also lost weight but for loreni the fear and threats she encountered were the worst they told us we had to pay $100 or
They would take our children when we said we didn’t have any money they said they were going to keep us there or rape one of the children most of the people here tell us that on the Colombian side there are guides who take them through the Jungle the guides will also carry
Backpacks and provide medicine they charge $350 for some it’s a price worth paying although the costs are sometimes quite high they provided us with security all the way to the border from the Colombian border into Panama after the military Barracks is where we had problems we were assaulted the canoes leaving bajo Chito
Navigate 4 hours to the next migration reception station there agents check their bags to confiscate dangerous objects and weapons Conditions in the camp are better thanks to the increased presence of international organizations although some say serious issues remain now we have problems with the food it’s going bad and there are children who are sick this tent is a place for children to feel safe to play and receive
Psychological care to overcome the trauma of the trip more and more children are arriving alone year on year is more than tripled more than 3,000 unaccompanied or separated children have already passed through here it’s a question of survival when their moms or dads can no longer walk as awful as conditions are these
People are the lucky ones to have survived the dangers of the Daren Gap
The Darien gap is 100 kilometers of jungle between Colombia and Panama. An estimated 500,000 people fleeing violence and poverty in their homelands made the crossing in 2023 in hopes of eventually reaching the US. DW spoke with some of them.
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31 comments
Why not fight against your government instead of going to another place?
Just goes to show, you can't stop desperate people.
Uh-oh, the chickens coming home to roost.
United Nations?
all those countries flowing into America do not practice any birth control. So their populations will not go down. Ours will just end up over growing. It is just racial growth for the Left.
Come to the US legally,
……..stop risking your life for an illegal action.
If America, or any other country, accepts everyone who is poor or in whatever trouble he/she is facing, it will collapse.
Which countries were screwed up by Ronald Reagans Contras and caused the Immigration issue again?
The recycles shoes from Indonesia should all be sent to them.
Notice how a Caravan always Emerges
just before US Elections. 🤣🤣
Exodus 😮 from Egypt.
Funny, they can't build a highway in that gap but a million people have no trouble crossing it
By design
The US is now the dumping ground for every failed country in world. Congratulations!
At this point they should just remove the border. It's just a money sink that doesn't serve any purpose.
Poverty, tyrany, war, displacement, a human tragedy, again. We don't learn from the lessons of the past, only repeat them.
Good. End all borders. People should be FREE to travel and live wherever they want. Country borders are inherently evil and anti-human rights.
And it’s gonna stay that way as long as America benefits from people filling over their demographic crisis, and to keep the rest of the western hemisphere disorganized enough to easily control
Encouraging them to make the Darien trek is inhumane and foolish.
It's always just so pitiful reading the comments on videos like this since people will want to break it up into a binary of legal and illegal yet when you try and have a discussion for alternative solutions the same reactionaries stumble over there words and weakly repeat their pathetic arguments.
reminds me of South Park, what do you have behind the wall?😆
this is literally why the US gives money away to those countries, but then u have weirdos that dont want to give money away, dont want to solve the source of problems, and are xenophobic and hate immigrants lol
500k people a day 😮.
Tusk get out of Poland.
Is there is any chupakabra monster in darian gap jungle 😂😂😂😂
What you sow you reap…when latin america is being destabilized just for bananas this what happenes
Republicans are letting them in so they can turn around and blame Biden for cheap political points.
and not one of them has an actual plan despite having i phones nicer than mine.
wage dumping incoming. It will impact even those who are now in favour of this
We don't want these peope here. It's the corporations doing it.
Why would ANYONE drag their children through this? It's like they're not thinking.