Belén Fernández in the Darién Gap, 2024.

Inside the Darién Gap

A Capurganá Diary

June 28, 2026

Plastered onto the side of the glassed-in immigration office at the dock in Necoclí – the northwestern Colombian city just across the Gulf of Urabá from the Darién Gap – is a poster warning of the hazards of northbound migration. Over recent years, more than 1.2 million people from a mind-boggling array of countries have […]

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Belén Fernández is the author, most recently, of The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas, published by Rutgers University Press. She is an opinion columnist for Al Jazeera English.

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Photograph by Bob Turton. Find him on Instagram @bobturtonphotography

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