Pictures of the Year International

Discarded clothes and trash from migrants trying to lighten their load lines the jungle as migrants struggle to make their way through the perilous jungle of the Darien Gap, a 65 mile stretch of jungle with no existing roads connecting Colombia and Panama along the Capurgana route in Panama, December 17, 2023. The number of migrants crossing the Darien Gap in an effort to reach the United States has surpassed 500,000 in 2023 despite the risks of robbery, murder and ultimately being turned away at the border of the United States.. (Credit: Lynsey Addario, The Atlantic Monthly with support from National Geographic Society)