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Closing the Darién Gap with a barbed-wire fence
Recently, a group of migrants from Venezuela and Ecuador who tried to cross the Darién Gap jungle found a new obstacle in the roadless jungle that separates Colombia from Panama — a barbed-wire fence with sharp edges that stands about 6 feet tall. “Be …