Crossing the Darin Gap
Crossing the Darién Gap
Migrants from around the globe are forging a grueling path to America through the heart of the rainforest
By Kate Linthicum | Photos by Carolyn Cole
Dec. 22, 2016
The day began with a crack of lightning over Turbo, a Colombian port city built along a murky, trash-strewn bay.
Once the site of gun battles between leftist guerrillas and paramilitary groups, the citys narrow streets now swirled with all types of commerce: Shirtless men hauled timber to the docks. Women hawked freshly gutted fish. And smugglers offered their services to migrants from all over the world on their way to the United States.
Every day they come, said Emelides Muñoz Meza, a local official who has found himself consulting maps of the world to understand where some of the thousands of foreigners making their way through his city have journeyed from.
Eritrea? I didnt even know this country existed, Muñoz said.
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