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Long wooden boats packed with migrants in orange life jackets arrive one after another, pushed down Panama's Tuquesa river by outboard motors. By day’s end, authorities registered some 2,000 migrants at this remote riverside outpost in Baja Chiquito on the edge of the Darien jungle.

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Migrants flow north to US border ahead of policy changes
By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ - Associated Press
Tue,05/09/23-2:03PM , 188 Reads
BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama (AP) — The long wooden boats packed with migrants in orange life jackets arrived one after another, pushed down the Tuquesa river by outboard motors. By day’s end, authorities had registered some 2,000 migrants at this remote riverside outpost on the edge of the Darien jungle that links Panama and Colombia.
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A new international migration campaign is being launched. AP's Lisa Dwyer has more.

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US, Panama and Colombia aim to stop Darien Gap migration
By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ - Associated Press
Tue,04/11/23-6:21PM , 226 Reads
PANAMA CITY (AP) — The United States, Panama and Colombia announced Tuesday that they will launch a 60-day campaign aimed at halting illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap, where the flow of migrants has multiplied this year.
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A Zimbabwe National Parks official inspects some of the elephant tusks during a tour of ivory stockpiles in Harare, May, 16, 2022. An international conference on trade in endangered species ended Friday, Nov. 25, in Panama, with protections established for over 500 species. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

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Wildlife conference boosts protection for sharks, turtles
By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ - Associated Press
Sat,11/26/22-10:15AM , 105 Reads
PANAMA CITY (AP) — An international wildlife conference moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of turtles, lizards and frogs whose numbers are being decimated
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A hippo floats in the lagoon at Hacienda Napoles Park, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who decades ago imported three female hippos and one male in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, Feb. 16, 2022. An international conference on trade in endangered species ended Friday, Nov. 25, in Panama, with protections established for over 500 species. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

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Wildlife conference boosts protection for sharks, turtles
By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ - Associated Press
Fri,11/25/22-8:12PM , 155 Reads
PANAMA CITY (AP) — An international wildlife conference moved to enact some of the most significant protection for shark species targeted in the fin trade and scores of turtles, lizards and frogs whose numbers are being decimated
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