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#IMMIGRATION: #DARIENGAP: ##PAN-AMERICANHIGHWAY: The industrialization of the perilous Darien Gap triple-canopy jungle to accommodate the tens of thousands arriving from across the continents, Afghanistan to PRC to Somalia to Venezuela. @Michael_Yon.

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

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#IMMIGRATION: #DARIENGAP: ##PAN-AMERICANHIGHWAY: The industrialization of the perilous Darien Gap triple-canopy jungle to accommodate the tens of thousands arriving from across the continents, Afghanistan to PRC to Somalia to Venezuela. @Michael_Yon.
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1927 EXPEDITION TO DARIEN PROVINCE, PANAMA

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. Michael Jan has been at the

0:05.4

Darien Gap all day, still is technically. We're talking about the south of Panama and he's

0:11.3

taken a crew in to observe the gathering of those people coming through the

0:16.7

gap and how they're being cared for at the Pan American highway side of the gap.

0:21.8

Michael, you've been here so many times.

0:24.2

What is new?

0:25.0

Good day to you.

0:27.4

Good day.

0:28.4

We literally just got back to phone coverage,

0:30.6

and I was rushing to get back and talk to talk with you and we've been out at Kanan Mimbrio.

0:35.8

It's a village deep in the jungle, Embra Indian Village and this is the village that most of the Chinese come out to after they've

0:46.0

crossed through the Darien gap. There was no Chinese there today. There was no

0:49.6

migrant they at all. There was no there were no aliens in Kanambeo today.

0:54.3

Took us hours to get out there and the reason there's none out there is because

0:58.5

nine Afghans died some days ago.

1:04.0

They were coming ashore in two boats and the boats capsized.

1:09.0

And so nine died and so that route is now closed temporarily because the seas are so rough.

1:15.3

And so basically they drown near Carreto on the and the Kuna Indian side there on the golf side.

1:23.4

And so, but yesterday we were out actually

1:26.0

at Baho Chikido, which was completely full.

1:29.0

Yesterday, about 3,000 came through,

1:37.6

not just Chinese but everybody you know it's who's who in the zoo and including a lot of Afghans and Haitians and Venezuelans of course and people that were trying to hide their faces and Haitians, you know, the whole works. I mean, so, yeah, about 3,000 yesterday, but again, today we went to Kanam and Brio and Zero came on that route due to the

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