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Until 18-plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. I called up Ken Ben Singer from over the New York Times and asked him to tell me about a place where the road ends.

Or for many, it's where the road begins or begins again.

This is San Vicente Panama. One of the first places you'll encounter if

somehow you have made it through the Darien gap. 60 miles of jungle on the

border with Colombia.

The Darien has been classified as unpassable for many years,

but desperation has changed that.

Now, thousands of migrants pass through this region on a long trek north to the US border with Mexico.

Ken visited a few weeks back.

How do the jungle are coming?

Sometimes several thousand people a day are coming? Thousands of people, sometimes several thousand people a day

are coming through and hitting this area of Panama

that was basically unprepared and the only real industry it had

there was agriculture growing a couple different kinds of fruits, bananas, but that was really all that was going on down there.

And then suddenly this appears and it's just turned everything upside down. For example, these indigenous villages have turned their entire

sort of economic business towards serving the migrant community.

And instead of growing the platanos,

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