This is CBS, I'm the World. I'm John Batsford with Michael Jan, a war correspondent who is in Panama City after weeks and weeks of studying the Darien gap, the 60 miles of triple canopy jungle without a passageway. There is no Pan American highway. That's the gap between Colombia and Panama.

Over Michael's been traveling back and forth to Biojequito, which is the village about three or 400 indigenous people keep a village on the edge of a river that is near the end of the Darien gap.

They make profit from it because they charge the migrants coming through $65 Michael's reports to be taken by boat to the Panama highway where the Santa front where the Panamanian authorities then bust them out of a gathering camp, bust them to Costa Rica.

Costa Rica then takes over and the migrants are headed north. You buy your way north or you work your way north. But Michael, I want more stories about who these people are. You've met with officials, doctors, physicians, and they've given you stories about where they come from and the ordeal they take.

One particular story of great interest right now is an Ecuadorian man who was seeking his wife. Please explain.

Right. That's an interesting story and it's still unfolding. 58 year old man from Ecuador woke up and found his note from his wife that she was heading north and she was leaving him.

So she was heading up to the Darien gap. And so in a panic, he took off from Ecuador, took a bus, found some migrants and hooked up with them, got into Colombia, started going across the Darien gap.

And so this is a 58 year old man on a love journey, tracking his wife. And so he's out there for 10 days at this point, gets lost, loses the track of the migrants.

And he was walking in and he got trapped in a terrain feature. He fell down some sort of hill and he couldn't get out.

So he was stuck down there for five days with no food. So now you're getting getting up to the 15th day that he's in the jungle.

So he got lost on about the 10th day. Then he got fell down some area and he couldn't get out. It was too slippery and too steep.

And so on about the 15th day, some Haitians came by and heard him screaming and helped the Haitians, helped him up somehow rescued him, gave him some food and spent the day with him.

And it said, hey, you know, we can't stay out here with you. We got to keep going. So they kept going. And so he was still on the jungle limping in. He said he was going to stay there a little bit more and gather a strength.

The Haitians made it to Bahu Chiquito and told Cinefront that he's out there. And you know, he needs help. The Cinefront said, you know, he's too far out. We're not going to go getting.

It's very dangerous for Cinefront to do. And so, so then after 22 days, he finally made it to Bahu Chiquito and alive, obviously, because he came in under his own power.

And so this is still unfolding in the last probably five days. He was just in Bahu Chiquito as much as five days ago. And still looking for his wife heading north.

And he was desperate to persuade Cinefront that he's not there to migrate, but he's on a love mission and trying to find basically the check on the box that would let him continue north to find his wife, who he believes is somewhere in Costa Rica at this point.

Right. The migrants go to Costa Rica and then they're continuing their journey north pretty much reproducing what we've seen in Panama, the authorities in the countries between Costa Rica and Mexico charge money.

And they then they traverse the countries and reach Mexico where it is not assured. You will have passage from the southern board of Mexico to the northern board of Mexico. Michael is spoken with one Haitian young Haitian family who reach Mexico through this ordeal and are still in Mexico. Is that correct? Michael? They're working or they're waiting in the entry point of Mexico to get permission to go north?

That's right. They're still down in Tapa Chula. And so that's where after the migrants make it through the Dairy and Gap, those who survived go through Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. And finally they get into Tapa Chula, Mexico, which is sort of like the El Paso of Texas. I mean of Mexico is on the Guatemala border.

And some of them stay there for three or four months. And so they have to get paperwork done and that sort of thing. And they say that the Mexican government makes it bureaucratically. I'm sorry.

Difficult pass, you know, jumping through hoops and keep some there for some long period of time. And then finally, as you know, the Haitians will tend to go on a lesterly route north and they'll come through.

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