“Venimos de Brasil y de Chile. Estamos buscandi una viena buena”, dijo a Efe Evans Paul Pierre, haitiano de 33 años quien, junto a decenas de compatriotas, llegó a Panamá a través de la selva del Darién, la peligrosa ruta migrationia por what he intends to do in North America.
Evans has a destination like Mexico. Travel with his wife of 6 years and mother of one. The wall in Chile caused by covid-19, related to its limited Spanish this mechanical Haven joven, which salió of australia pais to finals of one pass.
“Estábamos allá (en Chile) sin trabajo. Por la pandemia se murió la mama de mi hijo”. The idea of this journey is “the possibility of traveling to Mexico and conceiving a good question for us, for the people we want to make a good life”, added.
Many Haitians travel to Brazil to build the stadiums for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the works will take place in other American countries. The problems of obtaining papers to establish themselves legally are the pandemic’s derivative crisis, which the day without life media and trying to find other horizons, now in North America.
Here you can explain the islands to Efe in Bajo Chiquito, a remnant indigenous Panamanian barracks located in the hills of the Turquoise River and near the Colombian frontier with Colombia.
It is the most dangerous of the Darién routes that follow the Haitians, Cubans and Africans and Asians to enter Central America in their transit north. In the opinion of the monte his victims of asaltos, sexual violations and various encounters the death at home due to precipitation as the situation in the area known as “the loma”, according to the testimonies of the travelers.
The Wednerson Similhomme, a Haitian of 25 years, the tomo casi 6 days will cover the same joint with his wife and his little one.
“Mueren people on the truck, there are people who can not drive. When they enter”, in the Bajo Chiquito magazine, “it is better that in itself, there are mafias, with pistols… and we have more security”, this artist comments on Efe.
BAJO CHIQUITO, THE INDIGENOUS CASE WHO ACCOMMODES THE MIGRANTS
Bajo Chiquito is the first parade in Panama of at least 276 irregular migrants, from a group of 700 immigrants, who work in Colombia as the authorities of the Andean countries rebuild their frontiers, close during the months of the pandemic.
This route should register a minimum movement in 2020 due to the closure of the fronts during the pandemic, although the flow will not be detected at all; In October, Panamanian authorities reported that more than 1,000 migrants had been detained by Darién in two months.
In Bajo Chiquito, the migrants, families with small children in many cases and very few using tapabocas, are mixed with the inhabitants of the population. If bathing in the river, where also lava baths on the roads, and armaron in the cabins and front to the small houses carp carp of colors, dents of them, donde duermen to the hope of being able to follow his truck.
The travelers will file for their migration dates.
“I have to be patient. If we want to hope we can do something, we are family”, says Efe Wednerson Similhomme, who aspires to live with his wife and he lives in Miami (EE.UU.) where he has family and knows that life can be ” more easily “thanks to a job” in any thing, in fruits like in Chile, which allows “to help the family”.
Lázaro Fondicheli, a 45-year-old Cuban who travels with his 34-year-old daughter, says that there are “practically sequestrated” in Bajo Chiquito: “We say that we can sell for our mediums, which we do not have 25 dollars for our children. “In a place where the world knows that smokers are used by the truck various times, violates the women and men, after all how much, where do we get 25 dollars to pay?”.
“We are tirados acá sin agua, sin baño, durmiendo en unas carpas que traemos nosotros mismos, alquilan a 5 dolares por personas una cabañas que estan en pésimas conditions. , mi esposa tiene la salud dañadísima, tiene fiebre, no ha venido nadie a atenderla “, añadió.
The Panamanian authorities are in the process of receiving the medals for the renewed caudal migration proceedings of Colombia, while acknowledging that Panama is the only Central American country to have opened its borders, the 29th of January, the day of the Efe functionaries of the SNC Service del Servicio Nacional de Fronteras (Senafront).
The Pueblo’s defender, Eduardo Leblanc, said that the migrants who came to Bajo Chiquito were sometimes taken for a quarantine of 14 days, and that a new coronavirus infection had been reported in La Peñita, another pobe had migration station service and collapsed.
According to official figures obtained by Efe, the 9th of February saw around 1,000 migrants in Darién: 512 in Bajo Chiquito (276 were killed on Monday); 100 in Lajas Blancas; 375 in San Vicente; and none in La Peñita and 10 in Canan Membrillo.
It is not clear the number of migrants found in the Planes de Gualaca, the Panamanian Albergue that is near the frontier in Costa Rica, a country that has been closed to its frontier front and has only been resettled in Panama, a humanitarian corridor for which nicaragüenses can regress to their countries, dijeron to Efe Panamanian and Costa Rican officials.
THE PANAMA EXPERIENCES AND THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM
Every year, thousands of migrant migrants are being transported by migrants to Panama, proceeding to Suramerica and destined for the United States, in a wave that has generated a humanitarian crisis in the Central American isthmus in recent years.
Idiam Osorio, functionary of the International Organization for Migration (OIM) in Panama, recalled to Efe the “efforts” of the Panamanian state to “all the nets that imply a migration” of this type to what “secures, order.
A sample of these sports is the San Vicente accommodation, with capacity to accommodate up to 400 people, located in Darién and delivered through an order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH): all have modular houses, bathrooms, lavenderia, kitchen and sanitary services.
A resolution of the CorteIDH order passed in May to the Panamanian State resolves the problems of accommodation and guarantees the access to sanitary services of the migrants in Darién, which are more than 2,500 times.
“Create a space that is reunited, in the midst of the positive, the minimum humanitarian standards that are supported for habitability, water management, access to rights and related services” are the product of a “joint, coordinated, integrated humanitarian response, of the United Nations, the Government of Panama and the key players involved in the pandemic, “said Osorio.