Timothy O'Farrell

Migration through the #dariengap is becoming more global by the day, with tens of thousands of people crossing the jungle in 2024, from over 100 countries. This creates challenges. Especially for humanitarian groups who have been slow to adapt to things like language barriers

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Young Catholics are leaving the church in droves, but 24-year-old NZ Catholic Timothy O’Farrell thinks the worldly new Pontiff’s concern for indigenous communities and the environment might stem the tide. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/11/pop…

"El Salvador's offer to house deportees and U.S. citizens in its infamous prisons – for profit – signals a new and troubling escalation in the criminalization of migration," writes @TimothyOFarrel1. nacla.org/news/2025/03/0…

Children passing through the Darién Gap face mental health challenges, and aid groups are under-resourced and unprepared to adequately address their needs, @TimothyOFarrel1 writes. nacla.org/life-beyond-da…

Salazar found in her research that the best thing for children’s mental health in this context is simply to allow them to be children. “Children need to play. They need to have toys. They need to kick a ball around.” Latest by me for @NACLA nacla.org/life-beyond-da…

RIP Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian shanty town priest and later Dominican friar, prophet of the poor, whose Theology of Liberation in 1971 reshaped contemporary theology. He has died aged 96 in Lima. larepublica.pe/politica/actua…

"Creo que estas narrativas que enmarcan a los mochileros como crimen organizado no son útiles cuando realmente necesitamos una respuesta humanitaria a la crisis migratoria" – Bram Ebus.

Más Allá de la Criminalización: El Trabajo de los Mochileros en el Tapón del Darién. Latest by me for @Pacifistacol pacifista.tv/especiales/mas…

Tomorrow's front page of @ScotNational. We publish a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away.

Thrilled to have this @RefugeesIntl report with @r_schmidtke out where we trace the humanitarian needs and responses of migrants passing through both Panama and Costa Rica

You should read the bible verses on migration: Ezekial 4:22 "Sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.”

¿Y sus derechos humanos? 👉 trib.al/hrawRrz

“Deberían establecer un permiso especial de residencia, para promover la formalización y un marco de protección en asuntos laborales”, Laura Orduz. Hoy salió mi primer artículo en @elespectador sobre los venezolanos que mantienen limpias las calles de Bogotá, pero sin derechos.

1/ For the Atlantic's September cover story, I took 3 trips to the Darien Gap to try to understand the forces driving people there: instability, policy failures, and smuggling orgs that are eager to take advantage. @lynseyaddario captured it all. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

I'm dreading an increase in coming months' flow of Venezuelans fleeing through the Darién Gap. Recall this @AP report from May: apnews.com/article/venezu…

But that didnt stop big shows of support in Bogotá 📸 by @TimothyOFarrel1

Happening now in Bogotá, thousands of Venezuelans are chanting ‘libertad, libertad’ and dancing in the streets. But many just want to go home… #EleccionesVenezuela #Bogotá #venezuela