Darién Gap
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Sep 21, 2026
Camila Lourdes GalarzaGUEST
But we know that Obama, you know, was this like deporter in chief that they like to call him, that, you know, he had one of the highest rates of drone strikes.
Camila Lourdes GalarzaGUEST
And not only the domestic persecution of migrants, but also that just like the Honduras military coup, just like intervention in Syria, you know, we see them actually create and these crises that then force people, these mass exoduses from their country, And when the Democrats talk about like fighting immigration or like taking a position against ICE, they never talk about their role in creating the crises that make people have to leave their homelands and, you know, cross the Darien Gap and all of these places that are extremely dangerous.
Camila Lourdes GalarzaGUEST
So I think that there's a part of it, which is like now that, you know, Trump has the way like an accelerationist might say like, oh, like, you know, he's just brazen about it.
Camila Lourdes GalarzaGUEST
And so, you know, he that's why there is more public, you know, public opposition to it.
Tim SkillmanGUEST
You know, there's sailors who carry people back and forth from Central America to South America on small yachts just because...
Tim SkillmanGUEST
You can't get there through the Darien Gap.
Paul TrammellHOST
Yeah.
Tim SkillmanGUEST
You know, there's no way to drive there.
Lucy BarnardGUEST
And I guess what they were really recognising is that I had a really difficult hurdle to bounce through Over the period of a year, I had to get back from COVID and continue on and show that resilience.
Lucy BarnardGUEST
And then I had to navigate through Columbia and the Darien Gap, which you mentioned, which is a hostile area between Columbia and Panama, where it's considered a red zone and you really shouldn't go there at all.
Lucy BarnardGUEST
People often ask me for advice and I don't give it because no insurance covers you.
Lucy BarnardGUEST
If you go into this zone, it's like going into a war zone.
Maeva BambuckGUEST
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Maeva BambuckGUEST
the Darian Gap all the way to the United States with her partner, the father of her children, and her two sons, Emma, Emmanuel, and Yone, Yonifer, who are now, uh, four and nine.
Maeva BambuckGUEST
They arrived in August 2024 in the United States.
Maeva BambuckGUEST
They applied on arrival through the CBP One app to claim asylum.
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La crisis financiera de 2008 que le hizo perder patrocinadores, la covid-19 y cuestiones geopolíticas.
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En su ruta a través Argentina, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia y el Tap del Darién hacia Panamá.
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On its route it crosses Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and the Tap of the Darién to Panama.
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En su ruta a través Argentina, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia y el Tap del Darién hacia Panamá.
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Las por Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala y México, antes de cruzar a Estados Unidos y Canadá.
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Country through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.
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We talked about how he crosses the Bering Strait frozen in 2006 with the French adventurer Dimitri Kieffer, and about his crossing a three hundred kilometer swim in stretches across the Caspian Sea of the Caspian Sea.
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Conversamos sobre cómo cruzó el estrecho de Bering helado en 2006 junto al aventurero francés Dimitri Kieffer y sobre su travesía a nado de trescientos kilómetros por tramos a través del mar Caspio.
Dave HumphreysHOST
That's what most people do.
Dave HumphreysHOST
Most Range Rover owners aren't trying to pass the Darien Gap, for example.
Dave HumphreysHOST
But they want to make sure that it can do all the things.
Dave HumphreysHOST
And they soon discovered that they had to go back to the drawing board, basically, and...
James StoutHOST
Yeah, hopefully not.
James StoutHOST
The protest cycle resulted in a massive outbreak of state violence, right? I have met several people who lost friends, family members, loved ones, uh, who were tortured or threatened with torture themselves, uh, both at the border here and in the Darien Gap.
James StoutHOST
This call for protests is brave because the Iranian state hasn't lost its capacity for violence against its own people, right? It has continued to execute people, it has continued to rule through fear throughout the United States bombing campaign.
James StoutHOST
The United States, if that was even a goal, has not been successful in doing that.
James StoutGUEST
At first, we were like, oh, we'll solve all that.
James StoutGUEST
You know, they tried to nuke the Darien Gap.
James StoutGUEST
They wanted to nuke it to build, I think it was to build a shorter... canal than the Panama Canal, because that's the narrowest point in the isthmus, or to complete the one down there.
James StoutGUEST
But there was a time in human history not so long ago when we thought we could solve all our problems with nukes.
James StoutPANELIST
The protest cycle resulted in a massive outbreak of state violence, right? I have met several people who lost friends, family members, loved ones.
James StoutPANELIST
who were tortured or threatened with torture themselves, both at the border here and in the Darien Gap.
James StoutPANELIST
This call for protests is brave because the Iranian state hasn't lost its capacity for violence against its own people, right? It has continued to execute people.
James StoutPANELIST
It has continued to rule through fear throughout the United States bombing campaign.
Janine Di GiovanniGUEST
He had made it from South Sudan to Morocco to Brazil.
Janine Di GiovanniGUEST
to Venezuela through the Darien Gap, that incredibly dangerous jungle, to Mexico to the U.S. border where the Lutheran Church brought him to Fargo, North Dakota, and he was an Amazon delivery boy.
Janine Di GiovanniGUEST
So, of course, I was petrified that he was going to get picked up by ICE, so I immediately called lawyers.
Janine Di GiovanniGUEST
We got a habeas corpus written for him in advance.
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