Panama to bury more migrant victims of the brutal Darien Gap

AP ^ | Oct 4, 2021

[where's_the_Outrage?]

AGUA FRIA, Panama (AP) — In an isolated cemetery in Panama’s Darien province, migrants who die crossing the most treacherous segment of their journey toward the United States are buried with a plasticized card containing what little information is available about them in case one day someone comes looking.

On a recent afternoon, white-suited workers laid to rest 15 sets of remains in a long trench at the back of the cemetery. A local priest standing at the head of the trench with a candle, crucifix and flowers performed a simple ceremony. On the white body bags were handwritten clues: “Unknown in Bajo Grande,” “Unknown in Turquesa river,” and “Unknown #3, Minor.”

So far this year, Panama has recovered at least 50 sets of remains from migrants crossing the Darien Gap, a number officials believe is only a portion of those who died in the dense, lawless jungle. In recent years, 20 to 30 bodies on average have been recovered annually, but this year Panamanian authorities say more than 90,000 migrants — mostly Haitians — have crossed the Darien Gap from Colombia and the body count reflects that surging migration.

[Chode]

the illegals will carve a bleedin four lane highway thru there before it’s all over...

[hanamizu]

I recently read about an attempt with a fwd vehicle and it took them months to make the 90 miles. Of course they were slowed down by threats from guerrillas.

[rfp1234]

It was cannibal territory in the time of Henry Morgan and other pirates.

[KC_Conspirator]

When I was a lad in the 50s, My Weekly Reader promised that we’d soon be able to drive from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on the Pan-Am Highway. There is still no highway from South America to Panama (which before 1903 was considered to be South America since it was a part of Columbia).

Thats funny as hell.