Horror in the Jungle: Crossing the Darién Gap, Chapter Two

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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As the only land bridge between South and Central America, the notorious Darién Gap is a lawless, unforgiving region through which thousands of people, every year, traverse in search of survival and escape. In the second chapter of this special two-part series, Ben and Matt explore the harrowing reality of making this passage. Beset with bandits, crime, corruption, cartels and danger, innocent people are hoping against hope to survive the horrors of the jungle, and arrive at a better place in the north.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.9	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.1	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:26.3	My name is Matt.
0:27.4	Our colleague Noel is on an adventure, but we'll be returning shortly.
0:31.4	They call me, Ben.
0:32.8	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Andrew, the Triforce Howard.
0:37.1	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:39.9	That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:44.4	Previously, on stuff they don't want you to know, we explored the historical and geopolitical
0:50.9	context surrounding something called the Darian Gap. We spent a lot of time on that.
0:57.9	It was sort of chapter one of the two-chapter series because we needed to lay out deep precedence
1:04.3	leading to the Gap's current reputation, as well as its role as a massive land route for migration and crime. And Matt,
1:13.9	I know we were talking to the law fair. This is particularly close to a lot of us and our
1:21.1	social groups here in Atlanta because of recent moves regarding migration or regarding deportation attempts and apprehending
1:32.8	undocumented people and families.
1:36.2	And yet, to be clear, folks, this is not just an Atlanta thing.
1:39.8	It's happening around the U.S. as we record.
1:43.0	Oh, yes.
1:47.9	Just this past week and particularly this weekend, there was a, there was a large thing that occurred within the news you probably saw. It was, I don't know
1:55.9	what you would call it, an argument between the United States and the country of Columbia,
2:04.7	about two, I guess they're the huge military planes filled with human beings that were deported by the United States back to
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