Perilous passage between Colombia and Panama
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It’s not just Venezuela witnessing mass migration these days. Tens of thousands of others across Latin America continue to risk their lives traveling north to the United States.
Migrants from all over the world gather in the port city before embarking on a very dangerous trip to get to the U.S. It’s a journey through a jungle between Colombia and Panama called the Darien Gap.
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