‘Slow-motion disaster’: Panama’s Indigenous leave home as sea levels rise
The Guna people of Panama’s sinking Gardi Sugdub island are planning to move to the mainland to escape rising sea levels. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Tobago oil spill spreading to Grenada, could also impact Venezuela
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Reuters An oil spill that has stained Tobago’s coastline in the Caribbean is entering into Grenada’s waters and could impact neighboring Venezuela, Tobago’s Chief Secretary Farley Augustine told Reuters on Thursday. Eight days after Trinidad and Tobago’s Coast Guard first spotted the oil from a capsized vessel whose owner […]
Missing Panama cardinal found “safe and sound”
Updated: 12pm (AEDT) Panama City Reuters Jose Luis Lacunza, a Roman Catholic Cardinal who was reported missing has been found “safe and sound” near his diocese in western Panama, the Central American country’s police said on X on Thursday. A video shared on the social platform shows a police officer speaking with the 79-year-old Spanish-Panamanian […]
Record half-million migrants crossed Latin America’s dangerous Darien Gap in 2023
Panama CityReuters A record 520,000 migrants crossed the treacherous jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap in 2023, more than double the number reported the year before, according to government figures seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The migrants who made the journey that marks the start of the dangerous trek north from […]
Number of migrants crossing Panama’s Darien Gap surpasses 400,000 to record high
Panama City, PanamaReuters The number of people crossing the perilous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia has hit a record high of 400,000 in the year to September, official data showed, as migration to the United States intensified despite efforts to curb the flow. More than half of those migrants were children and babies, Panama’s […]
UN calls for regional solutions to curb record migration through Darien Gap
Panama City, PanamaReuters The United Nations on Wednesday called on countries to join efforts to contain the record-high traffic of US-bound migrants and refugees crossing the treacherous jungle region linking Panama and Colombia, known as the Darien Gap. Official data shows 248,901 people crossed the dangerous stretch between January and July, surpassing the record high […]
Migration through Panama’s perilous Darien Gap hits all-time high
Panama City Reuters The number of people crossing the treacherous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia hit an all-time high in the first seven months of the year, figures released on Monday showed, with July seeing a sharp jump despite recent efforts to curb the trend. Official data showed 248,901 people walked through the jungle […]
Into the jungle: For migrants, the Darien Gap is hell; for adventure tourists, it’s a magnet
LAURA GOTTESDIENER and DAINA BETH SOLOMON, of Reuters, report…
Drought-hit Panama Canal further restricts maximum ship depth
Panama City, PanamaReuters The Panama Canal will expand restrictions on the largest ships crossing the waterway, one of the world’s busiest trade passages, the canal authority’s administrator said on Wednesday, citing shallower waters due to drought. The measure follows a series of depth restrictions in the 80 kilometres canal since the beginning of the year […]
“In the hands of God”: One Venezuelan family’s journey to the US; border crossings drop after Title 42 expiry
El Paso, Texas AP When Luis López was lost in Panama’s Darien Gap last year with his wife, then seven months pregnant, their two young children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them. “If I was bad, let me die here, but I came with my […]