{"id":53244,"date":"2023-03-09T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/growing-numbers-of-chinese-citizens-set-their-sights-on-the-us-via-the-deadly-darien-gap"},"modified":"2023-03-09T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:34:25","slug":"growing-numbers-of-chinese-citizens-set-their-sights-on-the-us-via-the-deadly-darien-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53244","title":{"rendered":"Growing numbers of Chinese citizens set their sights on the US \u2013 via the deadly Dari\u00e9n Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surge in number of disillusioned Chinese citizens fleeing to the US by trekking through the dangerous jungle between Colombia and Panama<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of 2023, Xu was in no mood to celebrate the new year. He had just arrived in the Colombian beach town of Necocl\u00ed along with dozens of other Chinese citizens, weary from a two-day bus trip from Ecuador. Their goal was the US via the Dari\u00e9n Gap, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/13\/record-numbers-risking-lives-cross-darien-gap-us-migration-poverty-humanitarian-crisis\">roadless, lawless and extremely dangerous stretch of rainforest<\/a> connecting South and Central America. He wanted to leave China far behind him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter I leave the country [China], I have no plans to go back alive,\u201d says Xu later, speaking to the Guardian in a Necocl\u00ed hotel room. \u201cI feel like this country has been deceiving us, persecuting us. I have to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/growing-numbers-of-chinese-citizens-set-their-sights-on-the-us-via-the-deadly-darien-gap\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surge in number of disillusioned Chinese citizens fleeing to the US by trekking through the dangerous jungle between Colombia and PanamaOn the first day of 2023, Xu was in no mood to celebrate the new year. He had just arrived in the Colombian beach to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,50,1652,491,1443,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-colombia","category-migration","category-panama","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53245,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53244\/revisions\/53245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}