The Boom And Bust Of The Darien Gap

During those head days when the Biden Administration and its allies were trying to swamp the United States with illegal aliens, millions traveled from South America northward through the Darien Gap in Panama, briefly turning small, primitive villages into boom towns as the locals catered to the needs and wants of the erstwhile invaders. But once Trump took office, the traffic of migrants dried up and the boom towns saw a bust--made worse by flooding the wiped out their traditional crops. A leftist piece from Harpers Magazine entitled "At The Edge of Empire -The rise and fall of immigration boomtowns" by Belén Fernández, the author relates her trip into the region visiting some of the small villages. Of note are inadvertent references to how much the invasion was backed by other countries, the U.N., and various NGOs, with some examples (bold added):

... Scattered everywhere were remnants from the migration era, including a bunch of sun-bleached life vests suspended from a tree and a heap of metal fencing that had previously funneled migrants from the dock to a registration desk overseen by Panamanian immigration officials. A sign from the Norwegian Refugee Council and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs offered faded advice in both Spanish and English: try not to walk alone. it is safer to walk with another person. 

And:

... The village had also been equipped with intermittently functioning internet service courtesy of the United Nations Refugee Agency, he noted, but now that the migrants were gone, the United Nations was threatening to take it away. ...  

And:

... It was also thanks to the migrants, Pablito noted, that Canaán had electricity and water-purification tanks, luxuries that had been brought in by NGOs during the surge. ...

Note that these benefits were not provided because the inhabitants of the Darien Gap were poor and needed them, but were solely to assist the invasion of the United States. And now that Trump shut down the migrant pipeline and USAID has been defunded, the interest in the area has disappeared.