#Bestof2023: Chinese Nationals of military bearing the the Darien Gap, heading North. Michael.Yon/locals.com (Originally posted February 20, 2023)
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#Bestof2023: Chinese Nationals of military bearing the the Darien Gap, heading North. Michael.Yon/locals.com (Originally posted February 20, 2023)
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I Am The World. I'm John Bachelors. Panama, in these last days. |
| 0:06.3 | At least 39 migrants were killed in 20 injured when the bus they were riding in in Western |
| 0:12.1 | Panama tumbled off a cliff. Officials did not immediately report nationalities, but the |
| 0:17.8 | migrants had crossed the treacherous Darian gap from Columbia. In addition we have, the |
| 0:24.2 | bus was carrying 66 migrants to the shelter. It was the worst accident in involving migrants |
| 0:29.9 | in Panama at least a decade. This report, Fox News, estimates that nearly 250,000 migrants |
| 0:37.7 | crossed the Darian jungle, a triple canopy jungle, the majority Venezuelans, according |
| 0:43.6 | to Fox, in the year 2022. However, Michael Jan is here, Michael Jan at Locals.com to |
| 0:53.1 | force both connectors to this tragedy in Panama and to what situation is now, especially |
| 1:00.3 | at the large camp at the end of the Panama highway, the called San Vicente. Michael, welcome. |
| 1:07.8 | The death of these migrants at the bus highlights the fact that there's a steady flow managed |
| 1:14.2 | by Panama and other officials of migrants crossing the triple canopy jungle, loading |
| 1:21.8 | on the buses and then being driven to Costa Rica. What is the San Vicente camp now? You |
| 1:27.6 | travel there in 21 and 22 and now 23. What is it become, Michael? Good evening to you. |
| 1:33.8 | Oh, it's growing dramatically. You know, I just was, there's two major camps after you |
| 1:39.4 | leave the Darian gap. One is Las Blancas camp, which is even a little bit larger. And then |
| 1:45.4 | there's San Vicente camp. And as you'll see the UN there, the World Health organizations |
| 1:53.1 | there and OIM and some others are in the camp. The World Food Program now is there. And |
| 2:01.2 | when Mayorkas came, you and I were on the phone about last April, right? I was down |
| 2:06.8 | on Darian gap. I think we're talking on my satellite phone or something. And then there |
| 2:12.0 | are three black ops came in and land is right in front of me. I've been waiting for several |
| 2:15.6 | days. And so they landed right in front of me. I've been waiting, or I thought they might |
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