Pictures of the Year International

Migrants wake up at dawn in the Parroquia Santa Cruz y Soledad Church in Mexico City after traveling from all corners of the globe en route to the United States, in Mexico, January 19, 2024. The number of people who made the dangerous and often deadly journey across the Darien Gap--the 70 mile stretch of dense jungle linking Colombia to Panama--in 2023 was over 500,000 as they try to make it to the United States. (Credit: Lynsey Addario for The Atlantic Monthly with support from National Geographic Society.)