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      The True Meaning of the Panama Canal Drought

      The country is playing host to an intersection of the global climate crisis, the global refugee crisis, and the inequalities of a global economic model of exploitation championed by the U.S.

      Belen Fernandez
      Sep 01, 2023

      The Panama Canal is in dire straits.

      A severe drought is impeding navigation of the United States-dominated trade artery that bisects the isthmus of Panama in Central America.

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      Campaign Demands Justice for 8-Year-Old Girl Who Died in US Border Patrol Custody

      "It is atrocious that yet another family has to mourn their child because of our collective inability to fix our broken immigration system," lamented one activist in response to the death of Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez.

      Brett Wilkins
      May 22, 2023

      A coalition of migrant advocacy groups on Monday mourned and demanded justice for an 8-year-old Central American girl who died in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody earlier this month.

      The #WelcomeWithDignity campaign for asylum rights remembered Anadith Tanay Reyes Álvarez, an 8-year-old girl who came to the United States with her Honduran parents, following her death on May 17 after CBP agents "neglected to heed her parent's requests for medical assistance," according to the coalition.

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      Migrants, most of them Haitians, cross the dangerous border between Panama and Colombia

      The Hidden War Against the World's Impoverished Migrants of Color

      The weaponization of natural spaces like El Tapón del Darién against impoverished migrants of color is a new and insidious form of global warfare.

      Maira Delgado Laurens
      Apr 02, 2023

      As the public’s attention is fixated on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a new breed of warfare has been quietly and insidiously creeping into existence. This asymmetric warfare is characterized by the weaponization of natural spaces such as the geographical space between Colombia and Panama, El Tapón del Darién, against impoverished migrants of color. Staying informed about sudden and extreme global events is crucial, but we must resist being distracted from more insidious and subtle transformations and forms of violence happening around the world. The ongoing inhumane war waged by the world's wealthiest nations against the planet's impoverished peoples, currently manifesting in El Darién, also deserves our unwavering attention.

      This mountainous jungle area connecting the South and Central American regions has become a globally constructed local border zone that impoverished migrants of color from different parts of the world cross in search of refuge in North America. The discursive construction of El Tapón del Darién as a hostile border zone is a weapon that endangers and has material impacts on migrants, while it simultaneously absolves states from responsibility. This discourse presents “hostility” as innate to El Darién, and migration as an individual and free decision. El Darién is portrayed as a space naturally embodying “risk” and “danger” while states are framed as alien to the phenomenon and their role in creating the conditions that force individuals to migrate in the first place is ignored. Consequently, migrants are left resisting a war from an invisible enemy whose most powerful weapons are silence, inaction, and inhumane immigration structures that perpetuate the contexts that force individuals to use these routes.

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