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Heat, flash floods and bandits: Migrants risk it all on the treacherous Darién Gap

Each year, nearly half a million migrants cross the perilous stretch of jungle between South and Central America. Pulitzer Prize-winning Atlantic reporter Caitlin Dickerson made the harrowing journey.

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