Pictures of the Year International

Venezuelan migrant, Yanneris del Valle Bravo Coello, 41, receives an IV as Haitian migrant, Gina Edouard, 37, sits nearby in the Panamanian Red Cross clinic in the village of Bajo Chiquito, Panama, the first reception point at the end of the treacherous Darien Gap trail linking Colombia to Panama, January 13, 2024. Coello arrived with her three children dehydrated and barely able to walk after traversing the Darien Gap; at one point, she almost drowned and was almost swept away by a surge in the river before Deivis rescued her. The number of people who made the dangerous and often deadly journey in 2023 was over 500,000 as they made their way from central America toward the United States border. Many arrived at the first reception poiint exhausted, dehydrated, and with stomach ailments and minor injuries; some die en route, and their bodies are rarely recovered. (Credit: Lynsey Addario for The Atlantic Monthly with support from National Geographic Society.)