1/2: #Bestof2021: #Panama: DarienGap: Who is coming through the Darien Gap, and where do they originate? MichaelYon/locals.com (Originally posted April 23, 2021)
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1/2: #Bestof2021: #Panama: DarienGap: Who is coming through the Darien Gap, and where do they originate? MichaelYon/locals.com (Originally posted April 23, 2021)
The Darién Gap is a break across the North and South American continents within Central America, consisting of a large watershed, forest, and mountains in the northern portion of Colombia's Chocó Department and Panama's Darién Province. Thee Darién Gap is home to the Embera-Wounaan and Guna, as well as the Cueva (who were extinct by 1535) before the 16th century.
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| 0:43.9 | My colleague Michael Jan, workhorse bonnet, at Michael Underline Jan. Michael is in Panama City. |
| 0:51.9 | He traveled there with representatives of the Embarra people. In fact, the mayor or governor |
| 0:57.0 | general of one of the two large settlements of Embarra on the Panama side of the border |
| 1:03.8 | line. And what I'm learning from Michael is that these are educated. In fact, Michael, |
| 1:10.0 | you told me that the mayor of this settlement was educated in America. Did he share with |
| 1:16.3 | you where you went to college? |
| 1:17.8 | Yes, he went to college at Fort Hood Community College and not Fort Hood. I'm sorry, I'm |
| 1:25.6 | thinking army stuff here. Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. And so he went |
| 1:32.1 | for two years there and then came back and preferred to be back in Darien. So he's back |
| 1:38.8 | here. |
| 1:39.8 | And he has the English. So what does he make of this refugee flow? Does he comment that |
| 1:44.7 | it's heavier than it used to be? Then it's always been this way, 373 people a day from all |
| 1:50.8 | over the world. Did he speculate about why it's happening? |
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