REVIEW: COSTA RICA Colleague Evan Ellis of the US Army War College comments on the Costa Rica government and how it handled the Darien Gap surge of hundreds of thousands of migrants heading toward the US. [MORE]
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
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Colleague Evan Ellis of the US Army War College comments on the Costa Rica government and how it handled the Darien Gap surge of hundreds of thousands of migrants heading toward the US.
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| 0:58.2 | slash G-O. This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. |
| 1:05.9 | Army War College about Costa Rica. He's visiting Costa Rica on assignment. |
| 1:12.3 | About Costa Rica during the rush of hundreds of thousands of migrants through the |
| 1:18.2 | Darien Gap, passing through Panama and passing through Costa Rica without an eruption. |
| 1:23.8 | There were incidents. However, the question is, why did the Costa Rica government cooperate with the transit of hundreds of thousands who reached the Mexican border eventually and is now a burden on the United States government? And is the Costa Rican government no longer cooperating with that flow? I'm told that it is gone to a trickle. |
| 1:46.0 | However, the question is, do the Costa Rican government accept people who didn't go on to Mexico |
| 1:51.3 | and wanted to stay in Costa Rica? |
| 1:53.0 | Are they accepting migrants who have been returned to Costa Rica, though that's not their place of origin? |
| 2:00.3 | Professor answers and responds to all these questions. |
| 2:04.0 | More of this tonight. |
| 2:05.1 | Costa Rica in the news. |
| 2:07.4 | There have been periodic, what I would call, pass-through problems, John, because certainly |
| 2:11.7 | with a very, very large number of migrants that were coming through the region, through |
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