Seventy Miles in Hell...a journey across the Darien Gap...by Caitlin Dickerson in The Atlantic

[Molly Molloy]

Award-winning journalist and photographer travel with migrants over the Darien Gap...

I attached a pdf of the story text.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/09/darien-gap-route-migrants-panama/679156/?lctg=6050ea834c8a1e409501ea55

September 2024 Issue

At dawn in the village of Bajo Chiquito, a group of migrants waits to board motorized canoes, the next step in their journey north.

Seventy Miles in Hell

The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
By Caitlin Dickerson
Photographs by Lynsey Addario

August 6, 2024, 5 AM ET