Editor’s Note: “The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America” premiered on April 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN’s new Sunday primetime series, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. Darién Gap ...

The number of migrants crossing the treacherous Darien Gap, a mountainous rainforest region that connects South and Central America, has broken a new record, according to immigration officials in ...

Venezuelan migrant Alvaro Calderini carries his niece across a river near Bajo Chiquito, Panama, after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia on their way north to the United States, Nov. 9 ...

The number of migrants who traveled through the Darien Gap — a massive jungle that serves as a pathway through Central America and towards the U.S. — is close to 250,000 already in 2023, The ...

Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in El Salvador under a U.S. immigration crackdown described “hell” because of the ...

An almost unbroken chain of migrants is being shuffled from Colombia through the Darien Gap jungle on a scale that could approach 500,000 this year. Wave of migrants that halted trains in Mexico ...

An NPR team follows Omar Vivó as he sets off from Colombia for the U.S., traversing part of the Darién Gap, where the dangers include raging rivers, snakes and criminals who prey on migrants.

The migrants crossing through the Darien Gap are mostly Haitian who have been living in South America. Visa requirements and the coronavirus pandemic have made it extremely difficult for them to ...

Few migrants remain in the Darien Gap, but an environmental crisis has been left behind. May 5, 2025. Their hopes for asylum in U.S. dashed, migrants in Tijuana ponder next moves.

FILE - Migrants walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama on their long and difficult journey to reach the United States, May 9, 2023.

Migrants arrive to Lajas Blancas, Panama, after trekking across the Darien Gap from Colombia in hopes of reaching the U.S., Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. Credit: AP/Matias Delacroix ...

Hundreds of thousands of migrants are making the trek through the Darien Gap, the hazardous jungle between Colombia and Panama, in hopes of reaching the U.S. In Colombia, they gather tips and ...