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#PANAMA: Updating a new Michael Yon visit to the Darien Gap to watch the incoming migrants in the thousands week from Venezuela and Ecuador and then predominantly the Global South governances from all continents. @Michael_Yon

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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#PANAMA: Updating a new Michael Yon visit to the Darien Gap to watch the incoming migrants in the thousands week from Venezuela and Ecuador and then predominantly the Global South governances from all continents. @Michael_Yon

1927 Darien Gap

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor calling Michael Jan.

0:05.0

At Michael Underline Jan for the reporting.

0:08.0

He is in Panama City having returned from the Darien Gap, the end of the Pan American Highway, and the entry

0:16.6

port, the gateway, for most of the planet.

0:22.2

This last week he's taken some colleagues to show them for the first

0:25.6

time the camps and the flow of refugees, migrants, aliens coming through headed

0:31.7

we believe to the southern border. Michael you've

0:35.2

been to the Darien Gap many times over the last three years and you've been there

0:39.5

two or three times this year. What is what is changing because we need some we need some new

0:47.2

approaches to this overwhelming story. Good evening to you Michael.

0:51.1

Good evening I just got off the Panama Canal actually with Brett Weinstein

0:56.2

and Chris Martinson and Masako Garaha from Japan and boy what a trip we've had.

1:01.5

We were down the Darien gap then we came up to the Panama

1:04.9

Canal and but down the Darien gap you know Chris Martinson and Masako has been there many times, but you know, Brett Weinstein, you know, this, the, what's happening down here sounds almost incredible until you physically come see it.

1:21.5

I was just talking with Brett about 30 minutes ago

1:23.6

and he's like, yeah, I mean, it's really,

1:26.2

telephone conversations just don't do it justice.

1:28.8

But once you see it for yourself

1:30.9

and you see how deadly serious this is for the United States and for others coming

1:36.7

through. You know he's going back to and they're both going back to tell their respective millions of readers and

1:44.4

listeners what's happening down here that the huge numbers of Chinese coming

1:48.9

through and obviously Venezuelans and now Ecuadorians of course with the with the you know Ecuador

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