Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama's migration authorities told Reuters on Thursday.

The number of migrants traversing the treacherous Darien Gap in the hopes of making it to the United States has plummeted as Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino cracks down on the major

STORY: Panama says it saw a drop in the number of migrants crossing the perilous Darien Gap in 2024.The land bridge links South and Central America and the people who cross it are mostly bound for the United States.

More than 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, marking a 42% decrease compared to the record number who undertook the dangerous jungle journey from South America the previous year.

In 2024, over 300,000 migrants crossed Panama's Darien Gap, a 42% decrease from 2023. President Jose Raul Mulino's stricter measures, including barbed wire fences and deportation flights, contributed to this drop.

The number of US-bound migrants passing through the Darien jungle fell by 41 percent in 2024, with around 302,000 attempting the dangerous journey from Colombia, Panama's president said Thursday."We have achieved a 41-percent reduction in the flow of migrants crossing the Darien jungle,