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Harriet Barber in Miramar, Panama

Turned away at US border, Venezuelans languish in Panamanian ‘purgatory’

a young woman carrying a baby walks past a small tent outside a building
A migrant woman camps with her daughter while waiting to take a boat to Colombia in Miramar, near Palenque, Panama, on 5 March 2025. Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images

The word they use is “purgatory”.

In the Panamanian port village of Miramar, the migrants wait in abandoned houses and makeshift tents, the air heavy with unease. Few know how they will pay for the passage on a crowded boat to their next destination, 10 hours south. All are weary and despondent.

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