#GuatemalaCity: Reporting from the Darien Gap and from the railway line north onboard the freight train called "The Beast" to the US Border. @Michael_Yon.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:29.6 | This is Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. Michael Yahn, my colleague is in Guatemala City. |
| 0:37.0 | You will recall that Guatemala City visited by the Vice President early in the Biden administration, is part of the Northern Triangle of states and |
| 0:46.0 | Central America, said by the Biden administration to be the source of the migration surge toward the southern border. That was in 2021. It may |
| 0:56.8 | still be Guatemala has gone through a recent election which is still |
| 1:01.4 | contested. The losers are complaining that the winner was |
| 1:08.2 | advanced by a party that was illegitimate. That's tied up in charge and counter charge. Michael's there, however, to observe one of the |
| 1:20.4 | countries that is said to be a source of migrants and at the same time one of the |
| 1:25.6 | countries that is ready for development, ready for prosperity. |
| 1:31.4 | Michael can also help us understand what's going on in Panama where there's big trouble |
| 1:35.7 | for the government having to do with the mining contracts, having to do with drought, having |
| 1:41.5 | to do with the |
| 1:45.0 | in in in the Panama Canal ships coming through that's a major source of income |
| 1:51.0 | and also having to do with the tens of thousands |
| 1:56.3 | now crossing the Darien gap to come through Panama. |
| 1:59.8 | Michael, a very good evening to you. I welcome you and first we want to talk about how's the food? |
| 2:06.2 | Michael Jan is my gormon who travels the world and always checks in on steak. |
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