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#Panama: Darien Gap and the China Camp at San Vicente. @Michael_Yon

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

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#Panama: Darien Gap and the China Camp at San Vicente. @Michael_Yon

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/number-of-migrants-crossing-panamas-darien-gap-surpasses-400000-to-record-high/ar-AA1hqr7u

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0:00.0

I'm John Baxter with Michael Jan at Michael Underline Jan. This is the Friends of History

0:05.0

Debating Society. Michael's in Texas, but recently he was at the Darian gap. He'll be

0:10.1

back there again. Michael, the two camps. One is Vyachikita, and the other is San Vicente,

0:18.8

but you've started to send me photographs. You put them up on Twitter, also known as

0:24.9

XX. You put them up on Twitter, and you're showing something growing from the time that

0:32.2

Homeland Secretary, New York has visited the Darian gap in 22. And today, and now you

0:39.4

started to call it the China cap. What's happened?

0:42.7

Well, most of it, there's many camps, I shouldn't say many. There's numerous camps down

0:50.7

the Darian province and Darian gap. One is Vyachikita. There's another camp that's being

0:55.2

built right now that we call New Camp, so that'd be the second one. It's not occupied yet.

0:59.5

I'll be back in it in this week coming up. And then there's another called Laha Blancas.

1:04.7

There's another called Kananmenbidiu. I've been to all these many times. There's another

1:08.6

called San Vicente, and then there's some minor ones as well, and other minor ones. And so San

1:16.2

Vicente camp is the one I call China camp. That's the nicest camp. That's near the Nikkor air base

1:22.0

for people who are familiar with the Metathe area of Darian province. It's right next to that runway,

1:28.1

right? It's about two or three hundred meters away from that runway. And that's where

1:33.1

Mayorkas landed, and his four black ox was at that runway, and then came into the camp in April

1:38.1

of 2022. I had waited for him for about four days, and then he came in there and promised

1:44.5

money to help build up the camp. And now the camp will look at the before and after pictures on

1:49.5

my ex that I put up, and that I've sent to you, the camp is dramatically grown, and that's the

1:55.6

camp that most of the Chinese use. The vast majority, at least 95% of the Chinese coming through

2:01.8

Darian, used that very nice camp that was all these camps are paid for by US money, in part at

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