The pollution of migration to Darién affects the indigenous communities of Panama | América Futura

The traffic of migrants in Darién capwhich reached its critical point with half a million people who cross it in 2023, they decreased, but the millions of people who have gone through the jungle shared by Colombia and Panama have left high levels of pollution that mainly affect the indigenous communities. Although the flow of the path to the United States decreased, the garbage that the walkers were leaving on their path caused to the Esmeraldas river to provide the Embera people in Panama, generates diseases among the inhabitants.

The premises report that they have stopped using the river water to bathe after noticing the skin conditions. Panamenne’s environmental authorities say that among the river pollutants there are garbage, faecal matter and even migrant bodies who died along the way and could not be collected by the unacceptability of the territory. The locals say that now their fish has a smell of gasoline through ship engines that transported immigrants outside the jungle.

The authorities estimate that the humanitarian crisis has left 2,500 tons of garbage in the Darien plug and that cleaning along the immigration route will cost about 12 million dollars.