Panama has started to build a barbed wire fence in the Darien jungle between South and Central America. The goal is to stop migrants from reaching the US. But by blocking the trails most frequently used by the migrants, the fence has instead just re-routed people on their journeys, pushing them to take dangerous detours. Manuel Rueda has the story from Bogota, Colombia.
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