Jesús Chávez, a 34-year-old pastry chef from Venezuela, arrived to a village at Panama’s edge of the Darien jungle.

PANAMA -- This is part one of a five-part series following the harrowing journeys of migrants who risk their lives crossing the Darien Gap and riding atop Mexico's notorious 'Train of Death.' ...

Infections have spread north to Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras. The Darién Gap, a 100km (60-mile) stretch of rainforest which separates Panama from South America, where the screwworm is ...

CNN producer Natalie Gallon provided Texas A&M University students Monday with a firsthand account about what it's like to cross one of the most inhospitable, yet one of the most traversed, areas of ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — The number of migrants crossing the Darien Gap — a rugged jungle passage between Colombia and Panama — increased sharply in September, according to Panamanian ...

In September, I went to the infamous Darién Gap. Over the last year and a half, more than 700,000 people have traversed this unforgiving slice of jungle that divides Colombia from Panama.

"We didn't see any hope,'' Chávez said. They entered the Darien Gap Tuesday and heard about Donald Trump's presidential victory while still trudging through the jungle. ''We're trying to arrive ...

"We didn’t see any hope,” Chávez said. They entered the Darien Gap Tuesday and heard about Donald Trump’s presidential victory while still trudging through the jungle. “We’re trying to ...