How a Half-Million Migrants Moved North
null By Mary Anastasia O’GradyNov. 19, 2023 4:30 pm ETWonder Land: Hamas knew that after Oct. 7 the narrative would shift to the isolation of Israel. Images: Zuma Press/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyA half-million people are expected to enter Panama from Colombia through the Darién Gap this year. Let that sink in. It’s a big number for a trail through dense jungle that only three years ago was traversed by about 20,000 souls annually. Many who have made the trek this year are Venezuelans. There are also Africans, Cubans, Ecuadoreans, Middle Easterners and Chinese, among others. Most are heading north to the U.S. border. But they aren’t making the dangerous Darién journey on their own. Public officials in Colombia are helping them. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Continue reading your article witha WSJ subscriptionSubscribe NowAlready a subscriber? Sign InAbout this articleThe Americas“The Americas” column is comme
Nov. 19, 2023 4:30 pm ET
A half-million people are expected to enter Panama from Colombia through the Darién Gap this year. Let that sink in. It’s a big number for a trail through dense jungle that only three years ago was traversed by about 20,000 souls annually.
Many who have made the trek this year are Venezuelans. There are also Africans, Cubans, Ecuadoreans, Middle Easterners and Chinese, among others. Most are heading north to the U.S. border. But they aren’t making the dangerous Darién journey on their own. Public officials in Colombia are helping them.
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Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in the Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined the paper in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis-based Liberty Fund.
In 2012 Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies. In 2009 Ms. O'Grady received the Thomas Jefferson Award from The Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2005 Ms. O'Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism awarded by the International Policy Network for her articles on the World Bank, the underground economy in Brazil and the bad economic advice the U.S. often gives to Latin American countries. In 1997 Ms. O'Grady won the Inter American Press Association's Daily Gleaner Award for editorial commentary.
Ms. O'Grady received a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption College and an M.B.A. in financial management from Pace University.
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