The Darien Gap was once largely untouched jungle running along the Colombia-Panama border, and thousands of Comarca Embera Indigenous people long lived off the land and winding rivers ...

The Ngäbe and Buglé people, while closely related, speak different languages but constitute the largest combined Indigenous populations in Panama—with agriculture serving as their primary ...

The Panamanian government wants the Trump administration to help finance the clean-up of the Darien Gap, the jungle path used ...

Olea and others in the Indigenous Comarca Embera community — consisting of about 12,000 people who long lived off fertile lands deep in Panama’s southern jungle, until their territory ...

The Darien Gap was once largely untouched jungle running along the Colombia-Panama border where thousands of Comarca Embera Indigenous people long lived off their rich lands and winding rivers.

Over a million migrants trekked through this perilous route between 2021 and 2024, bound for the U.S. border. Panama says it never got any of the aid promised by Biden.