These photos show why migrants desperately want out of Costa Rica – The Washington Post

In September, about 2,000 people were packed together in a refugee camp in Peñas Blancas, Costa Rica, a town sharing a border with Nicaragua. They were living in tents doing what they could to survive, hoping to get to the next destination along a burgeoning path of migration moving into North America. It is a scene like many all over the world. Except this time, the dust-caked camp has materialized in a country not often associated with migration. The Washington Post’s Michael Robinson Chavez was there to witness the scene.