#DARIENGAP: From the Colombia/Ecuador Border to landfall at Panama at the entrance to the Darien Gap trail. Anthony Rubin; Joshua Rubin: muckraker.com. @Michael_Yon.
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🗓️ 5 November 2023
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1927 Darien Gap
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Michael Jan, my dear |
| 0:04.8 | colleague of many years, who is in Belize comfortably in a rainstorm in Central America, and he and I are speaking with Anthony and Joshua Rubin of Mockraker.com who have been |
| 0:19.7 | through the roadarian Gap. |
| 0:30.3 | We leave them at the Ecuador to Panama. We leave them at the Ecuador to Colombia border where it's recommended that they not cross without permission. |
| 0:38.5 | They've got American passports. That is, the eagle flies anywhere it wants to in South America I understand. |
| 0:45.0 | And Anthony, you're crossing into Colombia. |
| 0:48.0 | You need a transportation from the Colombia border. |
| 0:52.0 | You're headed to the north of Columbia so how do you go? |
| 0:56.8 | How do the how do the migrants go from crossing into Columbia once they're in Columbia |
| 1:01.7 | whether they do it illicitly or through the border |
| 1:04.5 | control. What happens next? |
| 1:08.1 | They just take buses. It's really not a rocket science. They just, it's straight up, they cross in and it's just, uh, bus after bus. It's like a 50-hour bus ride from there to |
| 1:17.1 | Nacoqui, which is a stage where my brother's going to add something to that. |
| 1:19.4 | Sorry, yeah, actually, I was going to add something to the question you asked before which was how did the Chinese |
| 1:24.6 | like how did they know where they're going another thing in addition to just like all these |
| 1:30.1 | UN-funded organizations helping them along the way is literally |
| 1:34.2 | Tik-Tok is helping them. They'll go on this Chinese Tik-Tok |
| 1:37.9 | app called Dooleyin, that's what they call it. And it well actually we talked to |
| 1:41.7 | some Chinese people that said that that's how they found out about this whole thing. |
| 1:45.0 | But basically in China they'll basically see Tik-Tok videos which basically expose them to this whole thing and that's a big reason why a lot of |
| 1:54.2 | them find out about this route and how they're coming here. It's literally just |
| 1:58.0 | social media and Tik-Tock. All right Josh you've got buses. Are the buses all gathering together? Did they know that these |
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