He Former Chavista mayor of the Cumanacoa municipality of Sucre state, Jesús Velásquez, was seen crossing the Darién jungle.
The former official of the Venezuelan dictatorship He was seen in a video, broadcast on social networks, in which he spoke about the journey.
“I think we have completed more than 50%. Today, thanks to God, first God’s blessing on us, that it did not rain, we managed to advance and we are now in the fourth camp. “Today I am going with the Cumanacoa troop”expressed Velásquez.
Regarding the trip undertaken by the former mayor, several users on social networks commented: “You look very beautiful crossing the Darién, why don’t you go to Cuba?; “Years ago they dedicated themselves to the revolution, and now this, the lie falls out of them”; “What happened to this guy kneeling on the ground?”
The historic Darién region, also known as the Darién Gap or Darién jungle, encompasses the Panamanian province of Darién, the indigenous regions of Guna Yala, Emberá-Wounaan, Guna de Madungandí and Guna de Wargandí and the districts of Chimán and Chepo in the Province of Panama, in the Republic of Panama.
This dangerous jungle on the border of Colombia and Panama continues to be a route crossed by a large flow of migrants seeking to reach US territory. Until March 2024, nearly 40 thousand foreigners crossed the feared jungle.
In 2023, authorities recorded that 328,667 Venezuelans traveled through the Darién, that is, about 40 Venezuelan migrants per hour took this route, seeking new hope beyond their national borders.
On March 10, the Panamanian government accused international organizations of encouraging irregular migration by providing Colombia with “maps on how to cross the jungle” of the Darien.
“International organizations give (migrants) maps of how to cross the jungle, knowing that they are going to be raped, that they are going to be robbed. They give them maps so that they can come through that dangerous jungle. It is a great irresponsibility,” said the director of Immigration, Samira Gozaine, after one of the NGOs reported the increase in sexual violations in Darién, the inhospitable jungle on the border between Colombia and Panama.
It should be noted that, at the end of February, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported an increase in sexual violations and the “brutality” suffered by many migrants in the Darién jungle, on the border between Colombia and Panama.
