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From Michael Yon
Panama City, Panama
24 March 2021
Yon-Genre mind-dump. Unedited -- we are busy researching.

Our team has been in Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Colombia, and Panama investigating the surge of migrants pouring through the Darien Gap.

Darien Gap is one of the most deadly areas on earth. Sixty miles of roadless jungle between Panama and Colombia. Many people believe they can drive from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego -- the tip of South America. If someone tells you they did this -- they are lying. Nobody drives between Colombia and Panama. Check Google Earth. It's easier to fly to the moon and drive there.

Many of the Trippers who head South will drive from Alaska to Panama City, load vehicle on boat, then fly or boat to Colombia.

Darien Gap:

Towering mountains. FARC guerrillas. Drug smugglers. Unhappy Indians -- they call themselves Indians. Snakes. Malaria. Dengue. Crocodiles. Floods. Dangerous migrants who murder, rob, and rape each other. Rodents of unusual size. Darien Gap has it all.

My on-the-ground research partner, the famous Chuck Holton, was an Army Ranger and later an Army helicopter pilot who morphed into a war correspondent. Chuck speaks Spanish fluently. He lives in Panama. Chuck has been studying the border roughly twenty years and has interviewed many people who emerge alive.

Chuck says that EVERY pretty girl or woman who goes through the gap is raped. Many men and women are murdered. All are robbed.

Many are forced to carry cocaine.

Colombia has become the Afghanistan of South America. Afghanistan, opium. Colombia, cocaine.

Cartels have armies.

We entered the edge of Darien Gap from the Colombia side. Smugglers were whisking migrant-victims from boats into the jungle. One day a couple weeks ago, I filmed them all from close range in 4k.

Later, we flew to the Panama side of Darien Gap.

We did not cross Darien Gap. Checking YouTube, there are journalists twirling smoke and mirrors pretending to have gone far into the Gap.

Many we spoke with seemed to have zero idea of the severe dangers ahead.

Migrant-victims who survive the Gap will emerge in Panama in Darien Province. We just drove to the end of Highway 1, down to Yaviza, after having done similar at the Colombia side in Capurgana -- far beyond the edge of the road on the Colombia side, but only into the crust of the Gap.

We interviewed many victims of this journey before they entered. Those who survive the entire trip to Panama will be detained when they emerge, dragging, often half dead, from the jungle. Children frequently emerge without parents. Parents having died or been murdered inside the Darien Gap.

We photographed many children heading into the Gap. Some were too small to walk. Too young to speak, or know anything about themselves.

When children so young emerge into Panama, Panamanian officials take them into custody. Panamanian authorities publish their photographs. If the children go unclaimed, they will be given Panamanian names, sent to Panamanian schools, and never know whence they came.

Aid groups facilitate the migration and pump the handle. Raking in billions. We see this around the world. What is their game? Are they truly aid groups? If they seriously wish to help migrants, why do they aid migrants to enter into the Bloody Darien? The Jungle of Rape, Torture, and Murder.

No humanitarian would do this. They are Inhumanitarians.

The Colombian government, Panamanian, Costa Rican, Nicaraguan, El Salvadorian, Honduran, Mexican, and the current American government, all encourage this. As does CNN in Spanish.

Panama stopped all border crossing for almost a year during pandemic. They can do it. But don't. The Gap is open for business again.

Chuck Holton, and the famous Japanese journalist Masako Ganaha, and I, were at a hotel restaurant in Cartegene, Colombia, when CNN started with their spiel. CNN may as well have said, "Go North Young Man."

At other times, CNN has published specifically how to get into United States. Offering much encouragement. After I published this, CNN denied they do this. But here is a smoking gun.

I asked Chuck if he would translate the situation. And I made this video:

See photos on my Patreon of children entering the Jungle of Rape: https://www.patreon.com/posts/49063905

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