This week, the head of the Panamanian Immigration office, Samira Gozaine, reported that the authorities have found more than 10 corpses of immigrants who were crossing through the Darien jungle, on their way to the southern border of Panama. USA.
According to a recent report from the Missing Migrants Project of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at least 19 people have disappeared in the Darién jungle this year, while in 2022 there were 137. It is estimated that several factors associated with the conditions climatic conditions and the organized crime gangs that operate in the area would be the key factor for these figures.
For the International Organization of Migrants (IOM), a large number of the deaths and disappearances registered in the jungle occur near large rivers, in addition to the fact that they have also occurred due to the bite of snakes or spiders, and accidents that leave the person badly injured without the possibility of of medical care. “They continue to insist on crossing the jungle, which is the dangerous natural border between Panama and Colombia, despite the mighty rivers,” Gozaine said.
The director of the National Migration Service of Panama stated at the beginning of the week that 790 people entered through the jungle, a figure well below the more than 1,000. Daily immigrants who were doing it in the previous weeks.
A total of 33,819 migrants crossed the Darién in the first five months of 2022, a year that closed with a record number of 248,284 migrants, bound for the United States and the northern border of Mexico.
With information from EFE
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