100,514 of the travelers who transited through the Darién jungle between January and June 2023 are Venezuelans. Since May 11, new immigration restrictions have also been activated in the United States, at the end of what is known as Title 42 and Title 8 is applied instead.
Panamanian official data reported, this Sunday, July 2, that 196,370 migrants crossed the Darién jungle, the natural border between Panama and Colombia. This figure is almost four times the 49,452 for the same period in 2022.
51%, that is, 100,514 of the travelers who transited through the Darién jungle between January and June 2023, are Venezuelans.
Venezuelans were followed by Haitians (33,074), Ecuadorians (25,105), citizens of 23 African countries (6,420), Chileans (4,964) and Colombians (3,579).
Since May 11, new immigration restrictions have also been activated in the United States, when the well-known Title 42 ends and Title 8 is applied in its place, the norm that has historically governed migration in this country, to which were added other measures that restrict access to seek asylum at its southern border with Mexico.
April was the month with the highest number of travelers entering Panama through the jungle on their irregular journey to North America. It registered 40,297 people, that is, 6.5 times more than the 6,134 in the same month of 2022.
They were followed in descending order by May with 38,962, March with 38,009, June with 29,721, January with 24,634, and February with 24,657 migrants.
Panama receives irregular travelers heading to North America at immigration stations located near its southern border with Colombia and on the northern border with Costa Rica, where it offers health care and food, in a unique operation on the continent that involves a dozen international organizations.
At the end of June there were 4,767 migrants spread across these border facilities, according to official data.
El Darién is a 575,000-hectare national park in Panama. Many of the accounts of the experiences in this inhospitable jungle include deaths, rapes, assaults, suicides.
Travelers face the dangers of the wild environment and those of criminal groups that operate there.
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