A file photo of clothing and rubbish littering the trail where migrants have been trekking across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of eventually reaching the United States, on May 10, 2023. — AP
FOR centuries, the Comarca Embera people bathed, fished and drew life from the Turquesa River, a jungle waterway winding through the biodiverse heart of Panama’s Darien Gap.
They were used to the rhythms of nature – the muddy swells of the rainy season, the sediment that darkened the waters.
