#DARIENGAP: From the airport at Quito, Ecuador to the bus station at the Ecuador/Colombia Border.Anthony Rubin; Joshua Rubin: muckraker.com. @Michael_Yon.
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🗓️ 5 November 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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1927 Darien Gap
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:20.0 | This is to find the reporting. He's in Belize. He's commenting right now on an operation that he |
| 0:37.4 | has participated in and supervised these last days. He will introduce that operation. However, I first want to check |
| 0:44.9 | on Michael's Week that Was. Michael, a very good evening to you. Thank you for joining. |
| 0:49.8 | You're in Belize and you're comfortable but you're observing the wider story in Panama, in the southern |
| 0:57.4 | border and in the Americas. |
| 1:01.0 | Your opinion, one week gone past past has this story gotten more attention or less |
| 1:06.0 | attention than it that it's due given the tens of thousands that are now coming |
| 1:10.6 | through the gap and heading to the US. Good evening to you, Michael. |
| 1:14.4 | Good evening, yeah, that's tens of thousands per month. |
| 1:16.6 | In August, it was about 82,000 through the Darien gap |
| 1:19.7 | down in Panama, between Panama and Colombia. |
| 1:22.3 | Of course, I'm up in Belize right now because this is part of the same route, actually. |
| 1:27.0 | Most of those go through Guatemala, the people who come through the Darien Gap, which Josh and also Anthony Rubin just did |
| 1:37.4 | unbelievably very dangerously. |
| 1:39.6 | They're on the end of that I can't wait to hear what they have to say |
| 1:41.6 | because they're on with us right now. |
| 1:43.2 | And then from the ones who survive the daring gap, which Anthony and Josh just did, |
| 1:49.7 | they go to Costa Rica, then Nicaragua, and they continue forth. |
| 1:53.3 | Eventually, they're in Guatemala, |
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