JAQUE, Panama (AP) — As the boat bounced across choppy Pacific waters, Mariela Gómez and her two children huddled for 17 hours on top of sloshing gas tanks, uncertain of what lay ahead in the dense ...

Venezuelan Mariela Gomez holds her son Mathias as they boat to shore after arriving on a larger cargo vessel in Jaque, on Panama's Pacific coast, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, during their journey south ...

JAQUE, Panama — (AP) — As the boat bounced across choppy Pacific waters, Mariela Gómez and her two children huddled for 17 hours on top of sloshing gas tanks, uncertain of what lay ahead in the dense ...