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1/2: #PANAMA: Controlling and closing the Darien Gap. Allison Fedirka @GPFUTURES

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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1/2: #PANAMA: Controlling and closing the Darien Gap. Allison Fedirka @GPFUTURES
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/us-panama-mind-the-darien-gap/

1913 Panama Zone

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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

0:07.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

The infamous Darien Gap.

0:15.0

What is to be done?

0:17.0

I welcome Allison Fadirka.

0:19.0

She is a geopolitical analyst for geopolitical futures. I recommend the site heartily because we're now

0:25.2

addressing a story that I've followed for three years thanks to a colleague of

0:30.9

my Michael Jan.

0:32.5

The Darien Gap, but that's connected

0:34.8

to a whole series of decisions that have been made

0:38.6

over these last years by different sovereign states

0:42.0

from Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, and North to the Texas or California

0:50.1

border.

0:51.1

This is migration story, but it's also a story about a new president, Molino, of Panama,

0:57.2

who means to change the status quo.

1:00.2

Allison, a very good day to you.

1:01.9

You are in Panama, and I'm told that it's a very good day to you you are in Panama and I'm told that it's a very attractive city

1:05.9

People are happy and they're prosperous especially since the canal traffic has returned the solution of the drought. I mentioned positive news here before

1:15.7

we get into the unhappy part. The drought is over. The reservoirs have again filled

1:21.7

the locks so that they can handle the big traffic.

1:26.0

There was a time there where they had to unload the traffic, put it on a freight train that

1:31.8

moved from one side to the other

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