A family flees violence in Ecuador and heads to the United States, but first they must enter the Darien Gap, a dangerous jungle.
Swanny Flores fled Ecuador with her two daughters and her 12-year-old brother after her boyfriend, a local gang leader, murdered her mother and threatened to kill the rest of her family.
She wants to seek asylum in the United States, but the only way to get there is through the Darien Gap, a 106km stretch of remote and dangerous jungle in Colombia and Panama that is the only land route for migrants heading to North America. southern.
Amid historic regional migration and new travel restrictions from Central American countries for migrants, the Darien Gap has become one of the world’s most-traveled migration routes and a growing humanitarian crisis. Last year, more than half a million people passed through the jungle. A quarter of them were children. This is the story of one family’s journey through the Darien Gap.
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