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1/2: #Bestof2021: Early Days the Global South floods to the Global North: 1/2: Flying down to Puerto Obadila to trace the migrants flooding the jungle. Michael Yon, Patreon.com Locals.com (Originally posted June 9, 2021)

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1/2: #Bestof2021: #Panama: Early Days the Global South floods to the Global North: 1/2: Flying down to Puerto Obadila to trace the migrants flooding the jungle. Michael Yon, Patreon.com Locals.com (Originally posted June 9, 2021)


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0:35.0

This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:41.7

This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelor, joined by my colleague Michael Jan,

0:46.7

work correspondent who is in Panama City to recount his activities of these last days with

0:52.8

his colleagues exploring the still unknown journey between Colombia and the Mexican border

1:02.4

with the United States by migrants who are coming from all over the world. Senegal,

1:07.3

Nepal, we've mentioned in the past. However, there are revelations here about large numbers

1:12.6

of the migrants, sometimes two or three hundred a day emerging from the mountainous jungle

1:18.7

that is between the Caribbean coast of Colombia and the end of the Panama Highway. There's

1:25.0

a gap. The Panama Highway ends suddenly as the triple canopy jungle, mountainous, and

1:32.7

what is called the Darian National Park before you come to the Colombian border. That jungle

1:38.2

is what the migrants must traverse. Sometimes with guides, sometimes getting lost for

1:44.1

six or eight days. However, with his colleague, Chuck Holton, Michael flew to the edge of

1:52.4

the Colombia border on the Caribbean and airfield, a very rough looking airfield from the

1:58.6

trip. But in any event, we're going to fly with Michael from Panama City to Puerto

2:04.0

Abaldia. Michael, a very good day to you. Thank you for this. You and Chuck and another

2:09.8

colleague, a journalist from Japan, flew to Puerto Abaldia in a small aircraft. What's

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