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

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


https://www.prokerala.com/travel/airports/panama/puerto-obaldia-airport.html

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This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Batser. Following Mark O'Yan's reporting,

0:40.3

workhorseponderpatreon.com of his months now in Panama trying to determine the route and

0:47.0

the scale and the casually rate and the ambitions of people who include the people coming through

0:56.1

are not just vigorous young men. There are men from Venezuela, the young men, who are

1:00.3

coming to the United States and their dreams to work, to send money at home because that's

1:04.4

a nation and crisis Venezuela. But they're families. I've seen videos of women who are

1:10.7

fully pregnant coming through. Small children being carried on their shoulders across these

1:14.8

rivers with their full-blifed flash floods. I've seen Michael roar by with a member of

1:20.3

Congress in his dugout, driven by an outboard, and on the other side of the river there's

1:25.9

an outboard coming downstream, a cutout, a dugout, a filled with migrants. Sometimes the

1:34.2

water is up to the edge of the gunwaves. Maybe three or four inches close to the water.

1:40.2

That's why they spill in this churning river. There's nothing simple about this journey.

1:45.1

But we're now in bio-Jakito. Michael, what I learned from your reporting is there are

1:50.0

great number of people here from Haiti, but that's misleading. There are great number

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