The long wooden boats packed with migrants in orange life jackets arrived one after another, pushed down the Tuquesa river by outboard motors. By day's end, authorities had registered some 2,000 migrants at this remote riverside outpost on the edge of...
Some had vague information - from relatives, social media, smugglers - about coming border policy changes by the United States government and were hustling to make it to that distant border.
As migrants made the Darien crossing, there were no visible signs on either side that efforts the U.S., Panama and Colombia promised a month ago would stem migration at this bottleneck between regions. If anything, the flow seemed to have increased during a year already on a record pace. In Necocli, Colombia, between 1,000 and 1,200 migrants a day board boats that ferry them across a gulf to Acandi on the Colombian side of the Darien, according to local human rights authorities.Camps have cropped up early in the route where migrants can pitch their tents and buy provisions. For those with the means, porters can be hired.
Many fled Venezuela’s political and economic crisis - now or years earlier - but others come from more distant countries.
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