Treacherous Passage
March 10
A microcosm of imperial hypocrisy and lethal inequality, the Darién Gap is the world.
Belén Fernández is an opinion columnist for Al Jazeera and the author most recently of The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas (Rutgers University Press, 2025). Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, and Current Affairs, among other outlets.