Fivefold Surge in Migrants en Route to U.S. Overwhelms Panama
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Migrant camp in Bajo Chiquito village, Darien province, Panama on Feb. 10.
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Panama is struggling to cope with a five-fold increase in migrants who trek for days through its dense southern jungle in the hope of reaching the U.S., according to the country’s top diplomat.
The migrants, from as far away as Senegal and Nigeria, are starting to overwhelm Panama’s shelters as numbers surge, Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes said.