#Bestof2021: Before the flood of migrants discovered the iperilous Darien Gap: The Darién Gap migrant march has suddenly slowed to stopped. MichaelYon/locals.com (Originally posted May 1, 2021)
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#Bestof2021: Before the flood of migrants discovered the iperilous Darien Gap: The Darién Gap migrant march has suddenly slowed to stopped. MichaelYon/locals.com (Originally posted May 1, 2021)
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| 0:42.9 | I'm John Batcher. I am speaking with my colleague Michael Jan, War correspondent, Patreon. |
| 0:49.6 | Michael Jan at patreon.com is how to find Michael's photographs and videos. Right now we're |
| 0:56.0 | having a conversation about what he learned in these last hours. He is in Panama. He is |
| 1:01.5 | at the at the edge of the Darian gap at the end of the Panama highway. He is in a rain |
| 1:08.9 | forest. It's raining and we're discussing what he learned before while he was in the |
| 1:13.2 | juggle and he got out of the jungle fast enough so that he didn't sink in the mud. |
| 1:18.7 | Michael, I now want to go to the migrant flow. You mentioned earlier that when you were |
| 1:23.6 | there 10 days ago, there were several hundred recorded in a day coming out of the Darian |
| 1:29.5 | gap at Bajo, Jacito. What is the, and you mentioned that the flow today was very minimal. |
| 1:36.2 | Three or more. Where are they, Michael? Have they stopped? |
| 1:40.2 | Well, since the last time I was there, which was about 10 days ago, there were, you know, |
| 1:46.4 | it was flooded then that the place was overrun with migrants. And you can see, for instance, |
| 1:52.2 | that YouTube video I'll put up with the three Venezuelans talking about the women being |
| 1:57.2 | raped and all that. They were gone. Most of the, there were still maybe a hundred there, |
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