Inside a US-Colombian operation to arrest human traffickers
On the Colombia-Panama border, where migrants wait to fight their way through the dense and sometimes deadly jungle of the Darien Gap, Americans from the Department of Homeland Security join forces with the Colombian National Police to take down drug traffickers. people before they can lead migrants north. Camping along the beaches of this verdant isthmus, where South America becomes Central America, migrants must choose between following people smugglers into the nearly trackless forest or paying a higher fee to cross the glittering blue waters of the Caribbean.Earlier this month, an NBC News crew flew over the jungle in a…
