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#GuatemalaCity: Report on the Gulf Cartel abduction of the Rubin brothers on the south shore of the Rio Grande near SpaceX; report on Panama troubles. @Michael_Yon.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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#GuatemalaCity: Report on the Gulf Cartel abduction of the Rubin brothers on the south shore of the Rio Grande near SpaceX; report on Panama troubles. @Michael_Yon.

1914 Rio Grande River

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor.

0:33.4

I welcome Michael Yahn.

0:35.0

He is in Guatemala City, and we're speaking of the adventures of Anthony and

0:40.5

Josh Rubin, whom we last spoke to when they were in Panama City, having proceeded

0:45.6

all the way from the Kito Airport in Ecuador, via bus in the route that is well marked for and especially Chinese migrants

0:56.1

well marked from ketoes all the way to the Mexican border. We left the Rubin brothers at Panama City having walked

1:05.6

through the Panama the Darien gap. Now infamous triple canopy 60 miles of

1:11.6

jungle. Apparently organizes canopy 60 miles of jungle,

1:13.8

apparently organized around large groups of smugglers,

1:19.7

guides, there are many euphemisms, who make money traversing those 60 miles and

1:25.9

depositing the migrants, the immigrants at the end of the Panama Pan American Highway where the Panama government or someone provides resources,

1:38.0

a place to sleep, food, and then a bus ride north to Costa Rica as you proceed, hit or miss, all the way to

1:47.0

the southern border into the United States is the plan.

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