Geopolitics
The Darién Illusion: How Western 'Success' Manufactures Invisible Human Catastrophes
Crossings at the Darién Gap have plummeted from over 300,000 to just 3,000 in a year, touted as a policy success by the US and Panama. This 'success' is a cynical illusion of hemispheric cost-shifting, a brutal act of strategic blindness that simply displaces human suffering and danger out of sight while celebrating the quiet of a sealed border.
