Covid strands 1,000 Cuban, Haitian migrants in Colombia
The closing of Panama's border due to Covid has stranded a thousand migrants -- most from Haiti and Cuba -- in Colombia, as they had planned to sneak across on their way to the United States, officials said Thursday.
a body of water with a city in the background: File image of the town of Capurgana, near Necocli, and the Gulf of Uraba during a Colombian Air Force helicopter flight in Choco department, Colombia, near the border with Panama, on October 14, 2020 © JOAQUIN SARMIENTO File image of the town of Capurgana, near Necocli, and the Gulf of Uraba during a Colombian Air Force helicopter flight in Choco department, Colombia, near the border with Panama, on October 14, 2020
Now in makeshift tents on the beach of Necocli, these migrants hope to sneak into Panama en route to the US by crossing the dangerous Gulf of Uraba to the Colombian border town of Acandi, emergency management director Cesar Zuniga told AFP.
Acandi, a tiny Colombian town near the Panamanian border, however, has been unwilling to let the group come in, Zuniga said.
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