()So far this year, at least 27 bodies have been recovered in the Darién jungle, on the border between Colombia and Panama, and according to the director of the Panamanian National Migration Service, Samira Gozaine, they would be migrants whose purpose was to get to the United States.
The same official had recently told that 12 bodies of drowned migrants were found in recent weeks in the jungle by units of the Migration, Border and Air Naval services, due to the swelling of the rivers now that the rainy season is beginning.
“Last year, I think more than 80 people died, so there are high numbers of individuals who are risking their lives,” Gozaine told on Sunday, but he says he does not know the exact number of people who have died on the road. cross the jungle
“And those are the ones that we know, those that the other migrants tell us they have seen on the road, but the ones that have been lost, the ones that have even committed suicide, because we have statements from migrants that say that (others) They have jumped when they saw it was impossible to climb the hills,” the official explained.
Figures from the Panamanian Ministry of Security indicate that, until this Monday, more than 175,000 migrants entered the Darién jungle irregularly. In 2022, the total entry of migrants through that same route was 248,000 people.
In 2023, Venezuelans, with more than 87,000 entries through Darién, surpass Haitians, who are the second nationality that passes the most through these roads, with more than 32,000 migrants; They are followed by Ecuadorians who, according to the records of the Ministry of Security, have already exceeded 21,000 migrants.
As of Monday, so far in June, more than 9,000 migrants have crossed the dangerous route.
