This Sunday, the Panamanian authorities reported the capture of two alleged “coyotes” or human traffickers, accused of the crime of migrant smuggling, after having abandoned four Venezuelans in the Darién Jungle, the dangerous border with Colombia.
According to the EFE news agency, the Darién Regional Prosecutor’s Office imposed the precautionary measure of provisional detention on them, after legalizing the arrest, without giving more details of the culprits.
Last 27 June, Venezuelan migrants denounced that they were abandoned by these individuals misnamed coyotes, while trying to cross the dangerous Darién jungle, near the border with Colombia.
According to EFE, migrants they would have recognized the defendants by their clothing and physical appearance when they arrived in Canaán Membrillo.
The Darien Gap has been considered an extremely dangerous passage for migrants due to its own characteristics of a jungle, but also due to the presence of armed groups that have murdered and sexually abused many people.
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