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Once nearly impenetrable for migrants heading north from Latin America, the jungle between Colombia and Panama this year became a speedy but still treacherous highway for hundreds of thousands of people from around the world.

Driven by economic crises, government repression and violence, migrants from China to Haiti decided to risk three days of deep mud, rushing rivers and bandits. Enterprising locals offered guides and porters, set up campsites and sold supplies to migrants, using color-coded wristbands to track who had paid for what.

Enabled by social media and Colombian organized crime, more than 506,000 migrants — nearly two-thirds Venezuelans — had crossed the Darien jungle by mid-December, double the 248,000 who set a record the previous year. Before last year, the record was barely 30,000 in 2016.

Dana Graber Ladek, the Mexico chief for the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration, said migration flows through the region this year were “historic numbers that we have never seen.”

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[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago (11 children)

The "Darian gap" not a gap anymore?

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

It's a gap because there's no infrastructure crossing it. Not because people can't walk through it. To prevent that, it would probably need to be a waterway, which would force people to use boats or swim. It would still be passable though.

There frankly aren't many places humans can't traverse with our own bodies. We're an extremely versatile, mobile species, even to the point of being capably semi-aquatic sometimes.

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We’re an extremely versatile, mobile species, even to the point of being capably semi-aquatic sometimes.

And here am I, hardly capable of leaving my chair.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. Equality of opportunity is an aspiration to be fought for. Not yet a pre-existing reality, though.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Equality of opportunity is already real in this case. Opportunity of outcome is not and should not be.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. Equality of opportunity already being achieved is a common right wing talking point. You cannot look at the handicapped and actually say they all get the exact same chances as we do though, that's frankly pants-on-head silly.

There's a whole lot they can't do.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This guy could geht out of his chair though

[–] misophist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you really fucking say that to a wheelchair user?!

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He said "hardly capable of leaving my chair", implying lazyness, not disability.

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