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2/2: #Bestof2021: Early Days the Global South floods to the Global North: 2/2: 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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2/2: #Bestof2021: #Panama: Early Days the Global South floods to the Global North: 2/2: 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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There are men from Venezuela, the young men, who are coming to the United States and their

1:00.7

dreams to work, to send money at home because that's a nation and crisis Venezuela. But

1:06.3

they're families. I've seen videos of women who are fully pregnant coming through. Small

1:11.6

children being carried on their shoulders across these rivers with their full-blif flush

1:16.5

floods. I've seen Michael roar by with a member of Congress in his dugout, driven by an

1:22.5

outboard. On the other side of the river, there's an outboard coming downstream. A cutout,

1:27.8

a dugout, a filled with migrants. Sometimes the water is up to the edge of the gunwaves.

1:35.4

Maybe three or four inches close to the water. That's why they spill in this churning river.

1:42.3

There's nothing simple about this journey. But we're now in bio-Jakito. Michael, what

1:46.8

I learned from your reporting is there are a great number of people here from Haiti. But

1:52.0

that's misleading. There are a great number of people here from Cuba. That's misleading

1:56.9

because they've not come from Haiti and Cuba. Where have they come from, Michael?

2:02.3

Medeci, for instance, and her mother and brother, 12-year-old brother, were two years in

2:06.9

Chile. They're from Haiti. We'll see them in Mexico soon, hopefully. But we met them

2:12.4

in Colombia. They had spent two years in Chile. Then the election and inauguration happened

2:18.9

in the new policy. Everybody started flooding in. We find Haitians and Cubans that are,

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