THE DARIÉN GAP, Panama – Last year, a record half million migrants traveled through the dangerous jungle between Colombia and Panama on their way north to the U.S. Now there has been another major development, so this CBN News reporter traveled once again into the Darién Gap to document this unprecedented migration, and the project that could escalate it even more.
The massive flow of migration that broke records last year is showing no signs of stopping. That’s panicking politicians here and in the United States as both countries are entering an election year. It’s happening because many migrants still see this window as their best chance to come to the U.S.
Iranian migrant Kaveh Mehran told CBN News about her journey so far. “I start in Iran and Istanbul, Turkish (Turkey), and I go to Cuba, Havana; Havana goes to Venezuela; Venezuela, Colombia; Colombia then the Darien forest, then come here.”
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We visited an Embera village called Canan Membrillo, about 4 hours upriver inside the Darien Gap. Homes here are often thatched roof huts, built up on stilts to keep the bugs away. But
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