Jesús Chávez, a 34-year-old pastry chef from Venezuela, arrived to a village at Panama’s edge of the Darien jungle.

Among the most notable actions are the closures of specific points with wire, the increase in manpower in the jungle and ...

Over the past year and a half, more than 700,000 people have traversed the infamous Darién Gap, an unforgiving slice of jungle that divides Colombia from Panama. It is so riddled with violence and ...

"We didn’t see any hope,” Chávez said. They entered the Darien Gap Tuesday and heard about Donald Trump’s presidential victory while still trudging through the jungle. “We’re trying to ...