#PANAMA-GAP: Report from the now temporarily closed San Vicente migrant camp at the exit of the Darien Gap-- and what is known of the riot and fire somes weeks back. @Michael_Yon
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🗓️ 31 March 2024
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1927 Darien Gap
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor catching up with |
| 0:04.4 | Michael Yahn at Michael Underline Yahn. When last we spoke to Michael he was in |
| 0:10.1 | Panama at the southern border of Panama at the Darien Gap near a camp known as San |
| 0:17.1 | Vicente, a large camp, a transition camp from the jungles of Panama, from the bus ride from Quito through |
| 0:27.4 | Columbia, from where you depart from overseas China or West Africa or in many instances just |
| 0:37.4 | Venezuela. Michael a very good day to you the mystery at San Vicente is the fire that happened many weeks ago at a |
| 0:47.8 | fire that struck the part of the camp that was the offices the supervision of the Panamanian border guards. |
| 0:57.0 | And we didn't get resolved who set the fire, why the fire was set, what about the 40 or so migrants who were |
| 1:07.0 | detained by the Panamanian authorities? What about the records that might have been destroyed in the fire? |
| 1:15.0 | Since then, you tell me the camp has been closed. |
| 1:18.0 | What do we know about the fire? |
| 1:20.0 | Anything in addition, good day to you, Michael. Good day. One thing that we know about it is that first of all we had brought a lot of press to that facility over the months or over the years actually but especially in the last |
| 1:34.5 | in the in the couple of weeks just proceeding that fire there had been a lot of |
| 1:39.6 | press on on that San Vicente camp which we've started to call the the chick camp that the Chinese |
| 1:47.0 | C-B-L-A-A-C-A-I-C because that's exactly what it is. |
| 1:53.0 | And one of the things, one of the groups |
| 1:54.4 | that we had been calling attention to is highest, highest |
| 1:57.6 | dot org. |
| 1:58.8 | And we had specifically, you know, through time, |
| 2:00.8 | I've been bringing a lot of attention to IOM, you know, the |
| 2:03.7 | International Organization for Migration, it's a UN branch and we had been bringing a lot |
| 2:08.2 | attention to Catholic Charities and the Lutherans and others, but I started |
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