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

More than 100 asylum seekers from around the world sent to Panama from the United States have no sense how long they will be ...

Panama says it’s working to formalize a route long used to smuggle migrants on the way to the U.S., which is now being ...

by boat — that would take them through the daunting waters bypassing the Darien Gap and into Colombia. Late last week, an officer in Lajas Blancas, which is secured by Panama’s National Border ...

PUERTO CARTÍ, Panama — They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S ...

The boat was one of three that had taken off from the Port of Llano Carti toward La Miel, Panama, near the border with Colombia. The other two boats suspended their journeys due to “adverse ...

The ordeal of those returning has been further highlighted a tragedy last Friday, when a boat carrying 21 migrants capsized ...

The boats often make trips between nearby coastal communities in Colombia and Panama. One pair of migrants who spoke to AP said they wanted to take the marine route because it was safer than ...