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#Bestof2021: Congressman Tom Tiffany, WI-7, goes to Panama's triple-canopy Darién Gap to meet the migrants. Michael Yon, Michael.Yon/locals.com (Originally posted May 29, 2021)

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

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#Bestof2021: Congressman Tom Tiffany, WI-7, goes to Panama's triple-canopy Darién Gap to meet the migrants. Michael Yon, Michael.Yon/locals.com (Originally posted May 29, 2021)

https://tiffany.house.gov/about-0

https://thecostaricanews.com/panama-closes-its-land-sea-and-river-borders-with-colombia/

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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelors.

0:18.9

I welcome Michael Yahn, at Michael Yahn, on the Facebook and on patreon.com Michael Yahn.

0:26.7

Starting from Panama, Michael has been in Panama for weeks, especially attending to the Darian

0:32.6

Gap.

0:33.6

The break in the Pan American Highway between Columbia and Panama, where you must walk through

0:39.6

or find your way by boat and walking through the Darian Gap.

0:45.1

Sixty miles or more of Triple Canopy Jungle, it's raining season.

0:50.5

Michael has been there for weeks and he's quite accustomed to the climate.

0:54.1

In these last days, however, Michael's escorted Congressman Tom Tiffany of the Seventh District

1:00.3

of Wisconsin.

1:02.5

Young man who grew up on a farm, a dairy farm, who traveled to Panama to see for himself

1:07.8

the Darian Gap and the migrants coming through the Darian Gap heading north to the Mexican

1:13.8

border.

1:14.8

Migrants, as we've learned over these last weeks from all around the globe, from Nepal,

1:20.6

from Congo, from Haiti, from Cuba, from Venezuela, all around the globe, coming through the Darian

1:28.2

Gap, where they're met by the Border Patrol, the Panama Border Patrol, and Bost to Costa

1:34.9

Rica to continue their journey north.

1:38.7

Michael, a very good evening to you.

1:40.2

I'm very glad you've struggled through your adventures in the Darian Gap by boat and by

1:47.2

foot, and you've introduced Congressman Tiffany to the Umbara Indigenous people who are

1:52.1

the Greciers and the facilitators for the migrants coming through.

1:57.3

First of all, how was the Congressman with you in the Darian Gap?

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