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

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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

1913 Panama Canal Zone

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:05.9

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

0:10.2

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

0:27.1

travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. I'm John Batsch for visiting with Allison Federica of Geopolitical Future.

0:39.6

She's in Panama.

0:41.0

She's in Panama City, which I'm told is a lovely and attractive place for people to vacation, or there

0:47.8

are many Americans who live in the Panama used to be called the Canal Zone, now it's a sovereign state with revenue from the

0:54.6

canal from mining and from tourism all very happy but some hours south of where

1:01.5

Allison is right now is the end of the Intercontinental Highway,

1:06.3

the Pan American Highway is called.

1:09.0

And the Pan American Highway breaks and that break is called the gap, the Darien gap.

1:17.0

Allison, we know that when you reach the Sem de Senti and other camps that have been

1:21.3

raised in the jungle, in the tropical forest.

1:25.0

There are buses waiting to take you north to the Costa Rican border,

1:31.0

and then there are transportation across Costa Rica all the way to the Mexican

1:34.6

border and then you traverse Mexico with the permission of the Mexican government to reach

1:40.1

the Texas border.

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