The Government of Antioquia launched a warning bell for a possible new wave of migrants who could be dammed in Necoclí. This was warned by Luz Patricia Correa, director of Human Rights, who pointed out that in the coming months another crisis could come true in this area of Urabá due to the flow of thousands of citizens of various nationalities heading to Panama, on their long transit to the United States. Joined.
The Government of Antioquia warned that Ecuadorian migrants interested in crossing the Darien jungle to Panama are particularly concerned. However, Venezuelans continue to be the majority in this migrant flow, with 63 percent of the people who undertake this route, followed by Haitians, who comprise 6.7 percent, Cubans (4.4 percent) and Ecuadorians with 3.5 percent. 29,226 Ecuadorians ventured across the wild jungle last year.
The number of irregular migrants that traveled from Urabá to Panama towards the United States almost doubled in 2022, reaching a record number of 248,000 people, according to Migration figures. The situation of minors is particularly worrying, a population that is also increasing. 85% of migrants are adults, while 15% are minors.
Exactly a month ago, the dramatic situation of the communities of the Gunadule indigenous people, who cover territories between Antioquia, Chocó and Panama, was known, and that in the face of the humanitarian crisis that migrants are experiencing, they took the initiative to reopen an ancestral path with their own hands, much shorter and less rugged, which more expeditiously communicates Colombian and Panamanian territory through the Darién jungle. This fact earned them reprisals from the so-called coyotes, members of armed groups and even from the Panamanian guard itself, according to what they denounced to the Minister of the Interior, Álvaro Leyva Durán, since the use of this trail goes against the illegal business that illegals have set up in alliance with border officials. In the midst of the harassment, two indigenous people from the Gunadule people were injured.