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Entre 10 000 et 15 000 migrants, pour la plupart originaires d'Haïti, se sont retrouvés bloqués ces derniers jours à Necoclí, une petite ville dans le nord-ouest de la Colombie, près de la frontière…
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Migrants start lining up on the beach of Necoclí, on the Caribbean coast of northern Colombia, in the early morning. Before them is the Gulf of Urabá, a stretch of the Caribbean Sea that interrupts their long trek northward toward the United States.
Once they cross if they cross they face a 60-kilometer trek through the jungles of the Darien Gap to reach Panama, and eventually Costa Rice and Nicaragua. If they survive that far, they will join the mass flows of desperate people walking north through Central America, all on their way to US-Mexico border.
But for now, the hopeful travelers at Necocli are at an impasse. There is only one ferry company here that can take migrants across the gulf, and its capacity is stretched to the limit.