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Luke Taylor in Bogotá and Austin Landis in Necoclí

BIZARRE: Over 3 000 stranded as boat captain arrests halt darien gap migration | Mind Blowing Facts

an aerial view of people boarding boats
People board boats in the Colombian port town of Turbo, close to the Darién Gap, on 15 September 2023. Photograph: Juan Restrepo/AFP via Getty Images

Migration towards the US through a perilous but increasingly well-trodden rainforest border crossing has ground to a halt after the Colombian navy arrested two boat captains for trafficking migrants.

But the attempt to stop movement through the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama has left more than 3,000 people stranded in two remote Caribbean towns, where officials fear the bottleneck could cause a public health emergency.

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