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#Panama: #DarienGap: Estimating 400,000 in 2023 & What is to be done? MichjaelYon/Locals.com

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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#Panama: #DarienGap: Estimating 400,000 in 2023 & What is to be done? MichjaelYon/Locals.com

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/cnn-trekked-with-migrants-through-the-treacherous-darien-gap/ar-AA19YSWk

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0:00.0

This is Friends Vistula Debating Society. I'm John Bachelot, welcoming Michael Jan, a veteran of the Darian Gap.

0:06.8

Since 2020-2021-2022-2023, Michael has spoken of, has visited, has dared, has challenged, has studied the Darian Gap 60 miles,

0:20.2

in which the Pan American Highway breaks in Panama and doesn't start again into Colombia.

0:26.0

In between is a triple canopy jungle, extremely dangerous, extremely mountainous, the quest for away through the Darian Gap has now ignited the whole world.

0:39.6

Everyone's seeking the gap and because they see it as an elevator that ride right to the Texas or California border.

0:46.8

However, Michael's in Panama City, having spent a few more days observing what appears to be a transformation of the Darian Gap into something like an institution.

0:57.8

Michael, a very good day to you. You've been around the world, but I want people to know where they can see you on television.

1:04.4

And here are your stories. I understand you're going to be on Fox in the next hours. Where and where can we find you, Michael?

1:11.6

Yeah, Fox called today and they asked me to go in tomorrow morning, so it would be Fox and Friends on Fox and Friends.

1:17.8

And then I'm always on Twitter, and that's just my name, Michael underscore, Jan, my last name is Jan, Y-O-N, Y-E, Oscar, November, not young, but Jan, Y-O-N.

1:29.4

But I'm also on locals every day. Very interesting stuff. Well, I'm not on every day. If I'm out in the jungle and there's no connection or whatever.

1:38.2

And I do spend a lot of time in various jungles and that sort of thing. Man, these jungles have been serious lately.

1:44.6

Oscar Blue and Ben Berkbaum got into a firefight a few weeks ago. Yes.

1:50.8

And one was killed in one Colombian rapist was killed in two captures. Then they captured, I think four more about a week ago, right when I was heading back down to the Dan.

2:05.8

And the video for this is on michaels locals dot com site, Michael, Jan, and slash my locals dot com. Please continue Michael.

2:15.0

Oh, yeah. So we've been out with a huge amount of people coming through about 1200 a day here now. So about 1,200 a day and it's increasing.

2:24.4

Of course, may or just just came down here again. And they said they're closing this thing, which is completely false. It's just not happening.

2:31.0

There's a significant amount of mainly in Chinese coming through. I'd say at this point about 200 per day, some of them strongly appear to me to be military or spies.

2:42.4

Some are, I think probably honest family units and are just honest, you know, quote unquote migrants, but others really, I mean, I feel like I'm at Fort Bragg sometimes, you know, like, for instance, about four nights ago, we interviewed somebody and we call him China Ninja now.

2:59.2

He's like a Chinese ninja and he was, he was, well, first of all, he threatened to massacre gunaha with violence. He's a famous Japanese journalist we were with.

3:09.2

He threatened her with violence, actually. And anyway, I calmed him down from that. And we ended up doing quite a bit of interview on video, which you got very angry with.

3:20.2

That's an interesting story in and of itself, but he said that recently he tried to buy a boat in Bahamas and he did buy a boat. He said for $5,000. He almost made it to Florida.

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