Hey, what's up? It's Gustavo Ariano, and you're listening to The Times, Essential News,

from the LA Times. Today, episode three of Align in the Land from our friends at Texas Public

Radio and the Houston Chronicle. It's a podcast that explores the human story behind the Haitian

immigration journey. It's Tuesday, August 16, 2022. To get to the U.S. border from South America,

Haitians have to trek through an isolated stretch of jungle in Central America called the

Dadaian Gap. In this episode, Haitian migrants take listeners with them on a forested journey

like no other. By the way, if you haven't listened to the first two episodes, you should

go back and do that first.

And we'll be back with episode four next Tuesday.

We're airing an episode from A Line in the Land every Tuesday through the end of the month.

Hey, there are episodes of Line in the Land in English and in Spanish.

This is the English version.

To hear in Spanish,

Vuel,

to find the version with the title,

La Linea.

It's a cloudy November morning

in the quiet beach town of Nicologli on the northwest coast of Colombia.

Haitian men, women, and children wait to board a boat dock nearby.

We're here at the beach on the coast.

There's a group of around 40 people in black and bright yellow life vests, let's say, Perla, 2.

All the migrants appear to be from Haiti.

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