boots and other necessities: $500, or more. Hundreds of thousands of migrants are now pouring through a sliver of jungle known as the Darién Gap, the only land route to the United States from ...

The 66-mile (106-kilometer) hike through the Darien Gap brings migrants from Colombia to Panama and is a crucial passage for those hoping to reach the United States and Canada.

By Julie Turkewitz Julie Turkewitz has spent months in the Darién Gap reporting on migration ... So do posts marked #darien, which sometimes appear between ads for H&M and the iPhone15.

It is the Darien Gap - the gateway to Panama from Colombia ... and slipping on their colourful wellington boots. One baby had been bitten by insects during the night. She was covered in bites ...