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1/2: #Bestof2021: Two years later: 2/2: Where do the migrants of Panama's Darien Gap come from? @Michael_Yon (Originally posted April 23, 2021)

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1/2: #Bestof2021: Two years later: 2/2: Where do the migrants of Panama's Darien Gap come from? @Michael_Yon (Originally posted April 23, 2021)

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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelors.

0:11.1

This is the new John Bachelors show, CBS.

0:13.8

Audio Network.

0:14.8

I welcome Michael Jan.

0:16.4

Michael Jan War correspondent at Michael Underline Jan.

0:20.8

He is in Panama City.

0:22.9

He is returned from the jungle of Darian province.

0:27.3

He is here to report on what he learned going into the jungle, filling his rivershoes

0:32.4

with mud, spending four days in the heat, and the water and the jungle of the Umbara

0:39.1

people, the indigenous people of both sides of the border, Colombia, Panama.

0:44.3

Remember Panama used to be a province of Colombia.

0:46.5

So this is all Colombia, but Panama is now a sovereign state, Michael's in Panama City

0:52.2

safely.

0:53.2

However, we need to recount what he learned in these last days about who is coming through

1:00.1

the Darian gap, the 60 miles of unpaved, unmarked, uncharted jungle that leaves the Panama

1:07.4

highway in Colombia and picks up the Panama highway in Panama.

1:13.1

There's a gap.

1:14.1

You must walk it.

1:15.4

It's rough, pilly, water-asoked, and filled with robbers and gangsters and other bad actors.

1:22.6

However, Michael, a very good evening to you.

1:25.1

What you've learned is that the dangers do not stop the immigrants.

1:30.0

They keep coming.

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