(They were as different from the genuine article as the designer brand knock-offs that come into Colombia through Panama from China ... And yet the only way to solve the violence on the border is ...

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino is trying to stem the flow of migrants crossing the treacherous Darien Gap, a 70-mile stretch of undeveloped jungle near the Panama-Colombia border.

Earlier this year, Jorge Gobea, head of Senafront, Costa Rica's militarized border patrol force ... crime to mobilize migrants from Colombia to Panama. The intention was to channel this flow ...