A household flees violence in Ecuador for the USA, however first they have to enter the Darien Hole, a deadly jungle.
Swanny Flores fled Ecuador together with her two younger daughters and 12-year-old brother after her boyfriend, a neighborhood gang chief, murdered her mom and threatened to kill the remainder of her household.
She needs to use for asylum in the USA, however the one solution to get there’s by means of the Darien Hole, a 106km (66-mile) stretch of distant and threatening jungle in Colombia and Panama that’s the solely land route for migrants heading north from South America.
Amid historic regional migration and new journey restrictions from international locations in Central America for migrants, the Darien Hole has turn out to be one of the vital travelled migration routes on the planet and a burgeoning humanitarian disaster. Final yr, greater than half one million individuals went by means of the jungle. 1 / 4 of them have been youngsters. That is the story of 1 household’s journey by means of the Darien Hole.