The Darien Gap is a 60-mile stretch of jungle that cloaks marauders, wild animals and dangerous rivers. AFP via Getty Images ...

SEATTLE - For years, the Darien Gap, a 60-mile treacherous jungle path that connects Panama and Colombia, has been known as ...

The Darién Gap is a treacherous, lawless human trail linking South America to the United States. The fittest take days to cross the dense jungle, others weeks - and some do not make it.

Nearly 2,000 of the 30,000 children who passed through the Darién Gap in 2023 were unaccompanied or separated from their families. In 2023, the Missing Migrant Project reported 141 known deaths ...

It is so riddled with violence and rape that women there told me they have to travel with the morning-after pill. One family I met at the gap had fled Venezuela years ago and resettled in Colombia ...