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#MIGRATION: #DARIEN GAP: Conversation with coleague Michael Yon in Taiwan re the fresh development in Panama that President-Elect Jose Raul Mulino has said in campaign promising that he will order the Darien Gap shut down --- and is this possible. Detail

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🗓️ 11 May 2024

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#MIGRATION: #DARIEN GAP: Conversation with coleague Michael Yon in Taiwan re the fresh development in Panama that President-Elect Jose Raul Mulino has said in campaign promising that he will order the Darien Gap shut down --- and is this possible. Details follow.

https://apnews.com/article/panama-immigration-mulino-darien-f46becc989e0f2c944922b03e6417a3f

1929 Panama City

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

0:04.0

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

0:09.1

tropics.

0:10.1

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

0:18.0

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

0:26.7

you listen to podcasts. This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batcher.

0:34.0

Michael Jan. Where in the world is Michael Jan. When last we left Michael, he was in

0:39.0

Yellowknife in Canada visiting the local hotel years who as I recall drew their work staff from the

0:47.5

globe via migration.

0:50.1

I remember there being a Taiwanese, I think there was an Eritrean it certainly might

0:56.2

have been occurred no I'm not sure about that but in any event the hotel was staffed

1:01.1

internationally very excellent, very excellent staff.

1:05.0

In the meantime, the indigenous people who populate yellow and

1:09.6

knife in the environments, this is deep in the Canadian woods,

1:12.2

it's quite beautiful, although you have to worry

1:14.4

about the black flies, I should imagine. The indigenous people remain unemployed. That's the

1:19.4

Canadian version of migration. However, now Michael is going to attend to Panama where he's

1:26.7

been many times over the last several years at the Darien Gap and also at Panama City. Panama's gone through an election cycle. Most

1:35.6

recently there is a new president-elect. His name is Jose Raoul Melinas. He's a man who's associated with the former President Martinelli

1:46.8

who was leading in the polls until the courts declared him a criminal and sent him to jail.

1:53.5

Instead, he chose to seek sanctuary in the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City,

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