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1/2: #Bestof2021: The way North to the Panama Gap: 1/2: Flying down to Puerto Obadila to trace the migrants flooding the jungle. MichaelYon/locals.com (Originally posted June 9, 2021)

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1/2: #Bestof2021: The way North to the Panama Gap: 1/2: Flying down to Puerto Obadila to trace the migrants flooding the jungle. MichaelYon/locals.com (Originally posted June 9, 2021)


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0:00.0

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0:07.8

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0:17.3

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0:33.6

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

0:42.6

This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelor.

0:45.6

Join by my colleague Michael Jan, work-or-respondent who is in Panama City to recount his activities

0:52.4

of these last days with his colleagues exploring the still unknown journey between Colombia

1:01.4

and the Mexican border with the United States by migrants who are coming from all over

1:06.8

the world. Senegal, Nepal, we've mentioned in the past. However, their revelations here

1:11.8

about large numbers of the migrants, sometimes two or three hundred a day emerging from

1:17.8

the mountainous jungle that is between the Caribbean coast of Colombia and the end of the

1:24.7

Panama Highway. There's a gap. The Panama Highway ends suddenly as the triple canopy

1:31.4

jungle, mountainous, and what is called the Darian National Park before you come to

1:36.6

the Colombian border. That jungle is what the migrants must traverse, sometimes with

1:42.8

guides, sometimes getting lost for six or eight days. However, with his colleague Chuck

1:49.4

Holton, Michael flew to the edge of the Colombia border on the Caribbean and airfield, a very

1:57.9

rough looking airfield from the trip. But in any event, we're going to fly with Michael

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