The Darién Gap: A Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas by Fernández, Belén

The Darién Gap: A Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas

The narrow Darién Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile...
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Author: Belén Fernández
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The Darién Gap: A Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas by Fernández, Belén

The Darién Gap: A Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas

$46.23

The Darién Gap: A Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas

$46.23
Author: Belén Fernández
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The narrow Darién Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Known in Spanish as el infierno verde, or "the green hell," it is one of the most inhospitable places in the world. Its terrain is too treacherous for roads, yet hundreds of thousands of refuge seekers contend with its horrors every year in the hopes of reaching the United States, still some three thousand miles away. And of the countless who set out for the border, an untold number never arrive.

In this book, journalist Belén Fernández travels through the Darién Gap to report on the dehumanizing and deadly stretch of land that has become a mass graveyard for migrants. Fernández's journey brings her into contact with refuge seekers, people smugglers, law enforcement officials, and many more whose stories bring life to a place overwhelmingly associated with death. Combining history, on-the-ground reporting, travelogue, memoir, and searing politico-economic analysis, she shines light on a largely made-in-the-USA crisis that has come to define our modern era.

Engrossing and heartrending, The Darién Gap is a poignant and compassionate indictment of structural inequality and institutionalized inhumanity in a world where the have-nots must risk death for a chance at a better life--or any life at all.

Author: Belén Fernández
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.88w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781978842083


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 06/22/2025
Shelf Awareness 09/12/2025

About the Author
BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ is an opinion columnist for Al Jazeera and the author of several books, including Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up in Mexico's Largest Immigration Center. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, and numerous other publications

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