#Panama: Darien Gap migrant surge destabilizes. @Michael_Yon
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🗓️ 4 September 2023
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/panama-blasts-colombia-inaction-darien-gap-migrants-2023-08-05/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine and we're the presenters of British Scandal. |
| 0:04.8 | People do strange things, don't they Alice? |
| 0:06.9 | I don't like the tone of your voice, what do you mean? |
| 0:10.0 | On our didn't mean you, I'm at the entire British public who in 2022 |
| 0:14.3 | followed a live stream of a lettuce with a wig on. |
| 0:17.5 | Entirely normal behaviour. |
| 0:19.2 | There's more normal than what was going on inside Downing Street. |
| 0:21.5 | For this series on British Scandal we're taking you inside number 10, |
| 0:24.6 | covering the shocking and very short premiership of Liz Truss. |
| 0:27.7 | Listen to British Scandal wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the FriendsVistue Debating Society. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm John Batcher with my colleague Michael Jan. |
| 0:35.5 | It's at Michael Underline Jan, his Twitter feed to find Michael's reporting. |
| 0:41.2 | He's now in Las Vegas. |
| 0:43.3 | He's headed to the Darian gap where he's been several times over the last years. |
| 0:49.2 | The Darian gap is turned into a backwater and occasionally high-risk place |
| 0:55.9 | where people came through 60 miles of triple canopy jungle without |
| 1:00.2 | reason to believe they would survive. |
| 1:02.4 | Michael in 2022 estimated 10% did not survive. |
| 1:06.8 | Many bodies out in the Darian gap. |
| 1:09.3 | It's turned into a subway from Columbia to Panama to Costa Rica on the Mexico |
| 1:17.8 | and across the American border where the homeland security is now acknowledging 130,000 apprehensions |
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