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Panama hit by a new wave of migration

2021-08-19T16:55:58.187Z


Many Haitians living in Brazil and Chile, fleeing the Covid-19 crisis in these countries, hope to join the United States.


The migratory waves towards the United States and from Latin America have resumed since January 2021 and continue to grow.

If the Covid-19 pandemic slowed down the movement of people on the continent for a time, it also caused an economic crisis and deprived the most precarious of work, particularly informal workers, while growth resumed in the United States and that there is a shortage of labor.

The situation has been particularly worrying on the border between Panama and Colombia for several months.

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Thousands of migrants are currently stranded in the small town of Necocli, in northern Colombia.

Boats leave from this small port to cross the Gulf of Aruba and reach the border town of Capurgana.

The absence of roads makes these migrations particularly dangerous.

Migrants then have to walk through the Darien jungle, infested with poisonous snakes and small carnivorous pigs.

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Source: lefigaro

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