Manousos (Carlos-Manuel Vesga) enters the Darién Gap in Pluribus Episode 7 – here’s why it’s so dangerous in real life.

The Darien Gap, a perilous 60-mile stretch between Panama and Colombia, presents extreme dangers including wildlife, disease, ...

While Manousos was exploring the jungle in Episode 7, Carol was having a few field trips of her own to various attractions in ...

What has been happening on the Darién Gap, one of the deadliest border crossings in the Western Hemisphere? Luckily, we have author Belén Fernández here to give us ...

Way back in “ye olden days” of the mid-2000s, I was still a wide-eyed, fresh-faced backpacker looking to travel the world. The crazier and more outlandish the adventure or destination, the better. I ...

Panama has announced an initiative to combat environmental degradation in the Darién Gap, but entrenched criminal groups in the region will make these measures difficult to implement. Panama’s ...

They gathered in the predawn dark. Bleary-eyed children squirmed. Adults lugging babies and backpacks stood at attention as someone working under the command of Colombia’s most powerful drug cartel, ...

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 ...

Migration through Panama's Darién Gap has plummeted by 98% due to immigration crackdowns in Panama and the United States. The Indigenous village of Bajo Chiquito, a former way station for migrants, ...

Over the last year and a half, more than 700,000 migrants and asylum seekers, most fleeing crises in Venezuela and Haiti, have crossed the Darién Gap, where they are exposed to abuses, including ...

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 ...