“Panama cannot end up becoming a black hole for deported migrants,” said Juan Pappier, deputy director of Human Rights Watch ...

Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and Colombia – have given up after President ...

Venezuelan migrant Gabriela Villanueva holds her daughter as she waits to board a boat to Colombia on Panama's Caribbean coastal island of Gardi Sugdub, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, after turning back ...

“There's no way I'm going back to Venezuela. There are many of us that don't want to go back. They are going to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia. Just like before," said Celia Alcala as she waited to ...

It comes as a growing number of migrants give up on seeking asylum in the U.S., often after crossing the perilous jungle dividing Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap and waiting more than ...