MATIAS DELACROIX

A boy watches buses during a Red Devils tuning exhibition in La Chorrera, Panama, Sunday, June 30, 2024. The Red Devils are repurposed U.S. school buses once used in the Panama Canal Zone and later as public transport, now adapted for private and cultural use. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
AP PHOTOS: Former US school buses get a second life in Panama
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Demonstrators travel by river to the mouth of the Rio Indio on Panama's Caribbean coast to protest a planned reservoir for the Panama Cana on Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
AP PHOTOS: Protests in Panama enter third week, challenging President Mulino
 
A sump at the Cobre Panama copper open-pit mine during a press tour of the mine, owned by Canada's First Quantum Minerals, which was closed after the country's Supreme Court ruled that the mining concession was unconstitutional, in Donoso, Panama, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
AP PHOTOS: Aerial views of a controversial copper mine
 
Luis Sanchez, center, sits with other Venezuelan migrants on a boat leaving Gardi Sugdub on Panama's Caribbean coast, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after giving up hopes of reaching the U.S. while in southern Mexico amid President Trump's crackdown on migration. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning
They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S.
 
Clothes of migrants deported from the United States hang on windows inside a hotel in Panama City, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Isolated in ‘harsh conditions:' Deportee from US details legal limbo in Panama camp near Darien Gap
A deportee from the United States detained in a camp in rural Panama, among a hundred who refused to return to their countries, has described waiting in limbo under “harsh conditions” and cut off from access to legal council and other rights.