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| Darien Gap: Love Lost in the Jungle |
| 2021-06-28 |
God damn Joe Biden to the deepest ring of Hell for all the pain and destroyed lives he is causing, and all those who encouraged these trekkers, and all who think it is no big deal to open our borders to those coming here illegally. [MichaelYon] 27 June 2021The report continues at the link. Panama City, Panama Mind-burst, sans edit (Paraphrasing from memory but I have verbatim transcript.) Just interviewed a man who was in Darien jungle 22 days. He made it to Costa Rica. In San Jose now, trying to get passport and back to Ecuador. His trip to America is over. Name: Nxxx xxxx. (Elided by me.) I asked why his first name sounds Arab and is family name sounds Armenian. He said dad from Armenia but he grew up in Paleostine and now has business Ecuador, but the socialist president destroyed Ecuador. He was specific and without prompting that he and his younger Cuban wife struck out for United States due to Biden opening border. His Cuban wife abandoned him in the jungle. She is in Tapachula, Mexico now heading to her family in Dallas. Without prompting, he said the robbers and rapists he encountered are from xxxx xxxxx (elided by me) . He was so injured after the Mountain of Death (the third mountain after entering Darien from Colombia), that he slept four nights alone in the jungle alone. Guides on Colombia side left him his group after two days and they got lost on third day at the Montaña de la Muerte (Mountain of Death). The 13 Cubans he was with left him in the jungle. He said the guides got cell signal by climbing trees like monkeys. High up in the trees. This sounds like Embera or other Indians. You may recall that I sometimes mention their climbing to the clouds fast like monkeys. He said they just climb up a tree and make a call. Nxxxx could no longer walk. Pulled in between two rocks for protection. Mosquitoes terrible. Used his wife’s perfume to rid the mosquitos and he said it worked, but it rained heavily each night. (I confirm rain...I was not far away in Darien when he was lost). Nxxxx had thrown out all his clothes. Most of them do. Said vultures literally landed in trees above and he could see them waiting in circles above. (I confirm that jungle is loaded vultures — the only place I have seen so many is Florida in winter.) Nxxxx was stuck there for four days no walking. Just praying. Nxxxx said he saw many bibles along the trail, btw. — people were so exhausted and danger so high on the Mountain of Death that many were throwing away even food. Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ians came and fed and helped him. Nxxxx said Africans and Haitians were very good to him but Latins not. Latins just passed him by but Africans and Haitians helped a lot. I said that is good because I hear many bad stories about Haitians, but I am meeting Haitians who seem fine people and often are helping people in the jungle. |
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