Upriver and into the Darién Gap with Congressman Tom Tiffany. Michael Yon, Michael.Yon/locals.com (Originally posted June 2,, 2021)
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Upriver and into the Darién Gap with Congressman Tom Tiffany. Michael Yon, Michael.Yon/locals.com (Originally posted June 2,, 2021)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/2/tom-tiffany-goes-darien-gap-harrowing-checkpoint-i/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I On The World with John Bachelor. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:12.0 | This is CBS I On The World. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:15.0 | Michael John is in Panama City. |
| 0:18.0 | He has been in Panama for several weeks, many weeks. |
| 0:22.0 | Watching the Darien Gap, the Darien Gap is about 60 miles |
| 0:26.0 | of triple canopy jungle from Colombia to Panama where there is no |
| 0:31.0 | Pan American highway. |
| 0:32.0 | You must walk it to traverse from Colombia to Panama. |
| 0:37.0 | Over these last months, Michael is very carefully reported on the thousands of migrants coming through the Darien Gap. |
| 0:45.0 | On foot, it's the way to travel in a very difficult jungle with large rivers, lots of animal life, |
| 0:54.0 | and the kind of animal life that's dangerous that carries weapons and machetes, human animal life that |
| 1:00.0 | raids and robs and plunders, the migrants coming through the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama, |
| 1:07.0 | the migrants emerge at the other end of the Darien Gap exhausted with lots of damage to their souls and their bodies. |
| 1:17.0 | Michael is now in Panama where he's been collecting more information about the scale of the migration and where they're from and what their dreams are and what they endure. |
| 1:29.0 | Michael, a very good day to you in Panama City. |
| 1:32.0 | Thank you very much for this. |
| 1:34.0 | The first detail that's important is that you spent last weekend with a member of Congress and another VIP taking them into the Darien Gap by foot and by river. |
| 1:46.0 | To meet with the migrants who was with you and what did this member of Congress learn about the Darien Gap. |
| 1:54.0 | Good day to you, Michael. |
| 1:56.0 | Good day, John. I'm in Panama City, but I've been down in Darien Gap in Colombia and in Panama now for about three and a half months and Congressman Tom Tiffany from West Constance and some of my reports and decided to take a vacation and come down with me, |
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