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#Panama: #PRC: Mainland Chinese pay $20,000 to "snakeheads" to traverse the Darien Gap, bound for the USA. MichaelYon/Locals.com

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#Panama: #PRC: Mainland Chinese pay $20,000 to "snakeheads" to traverse the Darien Gap, bound for the USA. MichaelYon/Locals.com

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Until it's picked up again in Columbia.

0:59.0

That is the Darian gap. It's a triple canopy jungle.

1:03.0

And over the last two years, Michael has been traveling there with his colleagues, members of Congress,

1:07.0

other distinguished visitors who are interested to learn about this phenomenon,

1:13.0

not just of the Darian gap in the triple canopy jungle that is extremely dangerous, perilous, deadly,

1:21.0

but also about the people pouring in in greater and greater numbers and where they're coming from.

1:27.0

Michael, we're now back at the Darian gap and the incoming camps have divided themselves.

1:33.0

There's not only biochicita, which you illustrated two years ago and a year ago, there's a new camp. What is that?

1:42.0

Can I'm in video? Can I'm in video is a camp? I've been to it maybe five times or so or six times now.

1:51.0

It's deep into the Darian gap jungle. It's an easier route if you're coming from Columbia.

1:57.0

If you've got money, basically the bottom line, when you leave a place called Copper Gunner,

2:02.0

in Columbia where I've been, I know how that dynamic is down there. You can get on boats.

2:07.0

If you've got enough money, you can get in the boat and go on the Atlantic side and bypass some of the hardest part of the Darian gap.

2:16.0

You come out in these Kuna villages. It depends on where they drop you off, but you'll be near Kuna Indians.

2:23.0

There's a Kuna Indian reservation there on the Atlantic side.

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