@@norml.hugh-mann more like 1 in 100 enter legally....and even that's a low guess! with the numbers that made it through this year I'd put it 1 in 200 easily....
I am a bit dubious about the coyote as invasive species. Its not like they haven't been in North America for thousands of years. I would need to see some reason for how they weren't able to extend their range before, because that is how EVOLUTION works.
5000 thousand American dollars promised from democrats I saw flyers that they brought with them they were promised the sad thing is they paid more than that to get here
@@bogganalseryd2324 statistically people dont leave their own countries because of the politicians and financiers in other ones, but because of the politicians and financiers of their own. Also there is a little bias in the statement on border crossings. There were somewhere close to this many crossings in the stated time period, but the added flavor of "en route to the US" is leading and completely non substantiated.
In 1995, I was supposed to go there with US Army engineers to work on roads, schools, clinics, etc. I never happened. One of the governments shut it down and we went elsewhere in Panama.
@@TheBooban Literally would not have impacted migration at all. The same amount of ppl are showing up, except many are sexually assaulted, which makes it all even worse, and criminial organizations are sitting in the cracking making money which ends up being a rod for both countries backs. A highway properly defended and maintained by both sides would be in everyones best interests, even in your anti migration one.
Itchy Boots travelled from the most southern point in Argentina to the most northern point in Alaska on a motorcycle, bypassing the Darien gap by boat.
On a side note: actor Ewan McGregor(Star Wars) rode an e bike from Argentina to Los Angeles. He did not go all they way to Alaska but it was all done on a electric motorcycle. He talks about the Darien gap and other things in his series called The Long Way Up. Including the construction of several electric fuel station built for him and his friend so they could make the route on their electric motorcycles….
WATOP, "It's not a jungle. It's an endless fight for survival" Meanwhile, people describing their endless fight for survival, "It's a jungle out there"
Must be some ferrys sailing around the Darien Gab. In 1998 I travelled from Belem to Manaus alone with my 18 kilo bagpack. but I was never alone, I met people, lovely and helpfull people...mostly. The most dangerous animal in the jungle walks on two legs... The most fantastic experience I ever had. But I would never dare do it again.
I can say the same thing about hitch hiking across the USA in the 70s. It was an adventure and worthwhile, but I wouldn't recommend it today. I'd write a memoir, but I am not a celeb.
The life available to them is so bad that they consider it worth the risk. They know about this part of the journey before they begin. Think of how much anger and sadness and hope is in these people!
@chofaimporovitch1543 maybe they should work on fixing the corruption in their home country instead of running away and making my country a POS like the one they're running away from
@@chofaimporovitch1543 maybe they should consider enabeling their own country, maybe they should try to improve their society, maybe they should try to improve themselves. Than bringing their misery and inbcapabilkity to succsessful states. HOW ABOUT THAT?! And dont even mention "the colonisation", "the exploitation by the west, the marsians, the US" or whomever or "its their geographical situationb" or any usual crap!
@@chofaimporovitch1543 How do you know this? Did you interview them in español? Most of these people are uneducated so that doesn't mean they make the best choices...
This video's title claims it's about why the Americas aren't connected by road, but the video was actually about the dangers migrants face when going through an undeveloped country. I feel cheated.
"steep mountains, constant seasonal rains, inaccessibility, unstable soils, hundreds of rivers and streams and also the Atrato River Basin which was called a swamp due to the lack of any solid ground it was simply impossible to build a bridge there." The first half of the video covers the dangers of the Darien Gap that migrants deal with that construction workers would also face and then there are the gangs, environmentalists, lack of local support, predators, disease and more that is all covered in the second half of the vid.
@@Gitoffamylawnyes 1st half was crap. The real reason is that it makes no economic sense. Panama and Columbia don’t care about each other that much. The initial reason for pan America highway was for the US to sell cars. But they don’t sell cars anymore.
People need to stop making this place so seem so imppasible. If they wanted to build threw it they would have no problem. It's 2 continents that don't really want to be connected, because if they did the road and rails would have been built long ago.
It also caused the death of a country: Scotland. Scotland tried to build a colonial settlement there but failed and ended up with a massively increased national debt, leading to the political union with England in 1707.
Fun fact: The largest venomous snake is the King Cobra. The Bushmaster is the largest pit viper and can reach the same length as the King Cobra, but is not as heavy. The heaviest venomous snake is the Gabon viper (3x the weight of the Bushmaster or 2x the King Cobra) but it's much shorter.
Why would China fund a bridge? Mainly because that's one of their tactics on the global scene now. They fund major projects in other countries as a type of favor. Kind of like a favor from the godfather that you know will have to be repaid in a fashion that you wouldn't normally want to do.
13:12 When I was in Ciudad de Panama in 1989, there were little convenience stores scattered all over the city owned and run by Chinese people. And don't even get me started on the guys running the brothels, they were just freaky looking.
I found this interesting. I was stationed in Panama last century, in fact I was there when ownership of the Panama Canal was transferred to Panama. Several times the ending of the Trans-American Highway came up, and the consensus view from multiple Panamanians, was that the existence of violent headhunter tribes in the area that fought and killed several attempts by the Panamanian and Colombian military forces halted all attempts to join the haves of the Highway together. Of course this might have been fictional story to fool the Norteamericanos. But then again, if true, would those governments admit to being stymied by primitive tribes?
Panama tried closing their border. See the video. It's pointless. If you really want to stop the migration, try to improve their living conditions at home. But if people's motivations are strong enough (like now), they'll find ways through "closed" borders. Guaranteed.
Sorta, that's what it ultimately is but they clearly intended (as can be seen by their choice of words) for it to garner sympathy for those ia's and spur people into wanting to either get a road built or something along that general line of thinking.
@@robertmcdonnold3038 did you not look at the chart? overlay Trump years in office with Biden's. This whole situation is completely Biden's fault. On his first day he started cutting Trumps executive orders to ribbons as everyone cackled in glee. NOW they have the nerve to blame it on Republicans for not voting on there bloated pork boarder bills that do more harm than good.
@@frescoservice5124 I'm talking about all the people crossing that gap and dyeing and being raped and molested and mugged. Then look at the numbers per year. Trump Years vs Biden Years. I'm sure the cartels down there love Biden.
Up until just after 1900 Panama was a province of Colombia, which made it part of a South American country. Because of this, Panama is classified as part of South America. The border between South and North America is Panama's border with the country of Costa Rica. The two countries and, thus, the two American continents are connected by numerous roads.
@@Doc_Holiday he hehe...now, you should expect the angry mob of good-doers squealing about you rascist, white privileged, toxic whatever persona... :)))
You mentioned every thing in the first 8 minutes that would make a lovely horror movie. I'm going to have to finish this when I have recovered from the first half. 🤣🤣🤣
I was waiting to find out when a road had been built. Then I realized the words were just backwards in the title. It should read Why the Americas still aren't connected by a road.
The American language is only loosely based on English, in particular it has a lot of confusion around the use of negatives. For example, "do" & "don't" or "can" & "can't" seem indistinguishable to Americans.
How sad. All these people with no place to go. They will find no refuge in the US and they seem to have no idea of that fact. And what a burden on US citizens having to spend the money to ship them home. The world is a mess…
Bret Wienstein did a long form interview in which he described living in Panama and his experience with the people flowing through the Darian Gap. Interesting that the Chinese - wo dod not come from South America = do not take that route. They are ferried the 60 miles to Panama by Chinese paid boats, then given housing and provisions in Chinese Only camps - unlike the otherr migrants. The "other " migrants will allow themselves to be interviewed about their journey and their plans, but the Chinese will not speak to anyone. Prof. Wienstein reports that a road is being built in Panama that seems to go no where, but it leads in the direction of the Gap, but people are not allowed to wander around the construction zones. Who is paying for it? Not Panama. Soros? Soros and the Chinese ? Things that make you go, "hmmmm."
10:35 They are not "forced" to travel through there. No one is holding a gun to their heads, "Cross or die!". Travel is voluntary. Yes, I am aware they want a better life. But traveling through the Darien is voluntary.
A English fellow named Ian Hibell crossed the Darian Gap by, or more correctly with his, bicycle in 1972. He and a couple other guys made it entirely overland by cutting a path through with machetes. He wrote a book about the trip, amongst others he did, called Into the Remote Places. Interesting reading, but he seemed a bit crazy.
The background music in the beginning is from Scary Interesting. You should give them credit and do a little collaboration for view shares. You’re welcome.
I know a guy who went through the Darien in a guided group of migrants, back in the early '00s. At some point , for some reason, a couple on the group disagreed with the guides on the right way to follow. The guides dared them to go their own way, but warned them that, if they were wrong, they will suffer consequences. So they took the path they thought was the best, but that path ended up rejoining the route that the main group took with the guides. They both got raped as soon as they rejoined the main group, and then they continued their journey with the group, there was nothing else they could do. I guess they're somewhere in the US now, working hard on forgetting their traumatic experience. The guides were armed, high on drugs, and drunk at all times. Lots of indigenous people live deep into the Darien, the kind that live just like any farmer in any other poor country, but they're not friendly, and they don't like foreigners going through their land
Levison Wood walked from , I think the right top of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama & finished in Columbia. Through jungles mountains. Guides & corruption. Animals to deadly snakes, fer de lance, pit viper & everything else that wanted to bite. Interesting DVD!
The real reason is because the US did not invest in Panama despite all the earnings they got from the Canal. A route similar to the one made from Florida to Key West with bridges
woooow.... well, THAT is interesting. I wandered around on the alps, crossed Europe by mtb, climbed the heights, walked EFI (every F inch) by foot. Now, THIS would be a great challenge! Maybe I can even make an adventure outdoor enterprise out of that... like Everest. I am sure there will be plenty of bored and rich adrenalin people out there... :))
The Bushmaster is the largest venomous Viper species on the planet and largest in the Americas. The King cobra is the largest venomous one with one nearly 19 feet back in the 40s
5:23 Bushmaster is NOT the largest venomous snake in the world, that is the King Cobra BY FAR and it is found in several regions in south and central america and i believe trinidad has some as well.. not just in the darien gap..
Rather than a road, just do a 2ce per week, overnight ferry service! Several times, I took a 45 minute, drive-on ferry that connects northern Morocco to southern Spain. Make it lucrative enough, a ferry system might work, but the ride would be long! The money gangs are collecting could go to something much more effective and acceptable. International economic development planners (my former career) may lack the imagination to do this. J!
Well lets just say its probably alot easier than people are willing to admit. Look at the #1 highway in Canada and what they did to cross British Columbia and Ontario. Some of the worst terrain in the world was encountered and they still managed to do it.
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Despite all the hazards of the Darian Gap, we must remember... back tens of thousands of years ago it was very very very very very easy to cross from the Bering Strait all the way down to Patagonia. Humans did it with no problems at all. Just ask any scientist.
4:50 The way that you show the equator at an angle is rather awkward to say the least. Some peoples might not be as familiar with the shape of landmasses as I am. It would have been better to show it at a more horizontal angle closer to what you typically see on maps.
They were showing the shanty towns and the constant guaranteed floods. 🌊⚰️ 🌊 ⚰️⚰️⚰️ . Living in those conditions, America must seem like Heaven to them.
I think if they finished it there tourism would boom for countries along the highway. I for one would love to make the drive as far south as the road would take me.
Ill sum it up for you theres a part of the jungle in panama called the durian gap its like the toughest rain forest terrain ever to get through impossible to get heavy machinery out there also theyre just poor and not gonna pay for shit for no reason it doesnt benefit Panama enough
He completely ignored that his math was completely wrong. There is way more than 10,000 people a day showing up to America. It’s probably 7 million a year not 520,000.
When a teenager in the '70's I started working on a plan to do a similar bike ride (Canada to Tiera del Fuego). My father (who'd lived in Mexico before I was born) talked me out of it due to the thieves in Mexico who preyed on foreigners. Noone talked about the Darien gap.
if 500,000 people cross that gap in one year, you will need a guide to find your way. That path would be beaten down, and there would be plenty of signs of previous travelers
The bushmaster is NOT the largest venomous snake in the world, king cobras and black mambas both get longer. The bushmaster is the world’s biggest viper
Well they do run the country and probably will for the next five years I mean no one's crazy enough to vote for the republicans at this moment in time,are they?
The narrators voice is so annoying. But at least I can hear it. I actually don't watch some of these videos just because of the sound of the voice. And the waste of my time with the coffeestunt. But I like the stories sometimes. Peace
He had a mountain bike so he didn't actually finish the journey maybe call Netflix and try filming the skipped gap crossing that close to iconic status 😅
wow, they could have built the road by now if each person carried one rock.
hahahahahahha so true
If thee rocks would stay in place!
Right up to the treacherous bob wire fence.
Bahaha
And a bag of cement.
I think coyotes in the Darien Gap generally refers to human smugglers rather than the canine species.
@@norml.hugh-mann That's a lie ..derp
@@norml.hugh-mann more like 1 in 100 enter legally....and even that's a low guess! with the numbers that made it through this year I'd put it 1 in 200 easily....
I thought the same but uh lol
Thanks for commenting on what was answered at the end of the video. FYI your answer is pulled from your... wrong place.
I am a bit dubious about the coyote as invasive species. Its not like they haven't been in North America for thousands of years. I would need to see some reason for how they weren't able to extend their range before, because that is how EVOLUTION works.
I wonder what could've happened in 2020 that caused such a continuous surge of people willing to cross Darian to get to the USA?
5000 thousand American dollars promised from democrats I saw flyers that they brought with them they were promised the sad thing is they paid more than that to get here
Covid was brought under control and all of the pent up desire to migrate again was unleashed.
How bout a vicious dictator driving millions of Venezuelans out of their country? 29% inflation in Argentina?
Biden / Harris happened
@@bogganalseryd2324 statistically people dont leave their own countries because of the politicians and financiers in other ones, but because of the politicians and financiers of their own. Also there is a little bias in the statement on border crossings. There were somewhere close to this many crossings in the stated time period, but the added flavor of "en route to the US" is leading and completely non substantiated.
In 1995, I was supposed to go there with US Army engineers to work on roads, schools, clinics, etc. I never happened. One of the governments shut it down and we went elsewhere in Panama.
Good
@@TheBoobanwhy?
@@alanhat5252 migration
@@TheBooban why?
@@TheBooban Literally would not have impacted migration at all. The same amount of ppl are showing up, except many are sexually assaulted, which makes it all even worse, and criminial organizations are sitting in the cracking making money which ends up being a rod for both countries backs.
A highway properly defended and maintained by both sides would be in everyones best interests, even in your anti migration one.
Itchy Boots travelled from the most southern point in Argentina to the most northern point in Alaska on a motorcycle, bypassing the Darien gap by boat.
That's on e brave woman.
L😂L woman ❔️
I gotta look at this again.
@@icosthop9998 Yup! Brave lady alone on a Honda.
Of course
On a side note: actor Ewan McGregor(Star Wars) rode an e bike from Argentina to Los Angeles. He did not go all they way to Alaska but it was all done on a electric motorcycle. He talks about the Darien gap and other things in his series called The Long Way Up. Including the construction of several electric fuel station built for him and his friend so they could make the route on their electric motorcycles….
what a weird celeb flex "we had some peasants build us electric fuel stations in the third world so we could take a nifty road trip"
@@-.-Monster What a weird comment
@@sebastianbardon391 k
What a virtue signaling clown McGregor is.
WATOP, "It's not a jungle. It's an endless fight for survival"
Meanwhile, people describing their endless fight for survival, "It's a jungle out there"
L😂L
Must be some ferrys sailing around the Darien Gab.
In 1998 I travelled from Belem to Manaus alone with my 18 kilo bagpack.
but I was never alone, I met people, lovely and helpfull people...mostly.
The most dangerous animal in the jungle walks on two legs...
The most fantastic experience I ever had.
But I would never dare do it again.
I can say the same thing about hitch hiking across the USA in the 70s. It was an adventure and worthwhile, but I wouldn't recommend it today.
I'd write a memoir, but I am not a celeb.
@kevinmunger1842 write about the experience and become a Celebrity. 🎉
@@kevinmunger1842 Maybe you should write a book about your adventures, it could make you famous...
Very simple illegal migrants are not wanted.
They aren't forced to cross. They choose to cross.
The life available to them is so bad that they consider it worth the risk. They know about this part of the journey before they begin. Think of how much anger and sadness and hope is in these people!
@chofaimporovitch1543 maybe they should work on fixing the corruption in their home country instead of running away and making my country a POS like the one they're running away from
Nah they just hear how America is giving away everything to everyone else instead of their own so they figure it’s a quick meal
@@chofaimporovitch1543 maybe they should consider enabeling their own country, maybe they should try to improve their society, maybe they should try to improve themselves. Than bringing their misery and inbcapabilkity to succsessful states. HOW ABOUT THAT?!
And dont even mention "the colonisation", "the exploitation by the west, the marsians, the US" or whomever or "its their geographical situationb" or any usual crap!
@@chofaimporovitch1543 How do you know this? Did you interview them in español? Most of these people are uneducated so that doesn't mean they make the best choices...
This video's title claims it's about why the Americas aren't connected by road, but the video was actually about the dangers migrants face when going through an undeveloped country. I feel cheated.
"steep mountains, constant seasonal rains, inaccessibility, unstable soils, hundreds of rivers and streams and also the Atrato River Basin which was called a swamp due to the lack of any solid ground it was simply impossible to build a bridge there." The first half of the video covers the dangers of the Darien Gap that migrants deal with that construction workers would also face and then there are the gangs, environmentalists, lack of local support, predators, disease and more that is all covered in the second half of the vid.
False headline. A factual piece about a road becomes a diatribe about illegal immigrants and their plight crossing the gap.
@@Gitoffamylawnyes 1st half was crap. The real reason is that it makes no economic sense. Panama and Columbia don’t care about each other that much. The initial reason for pan America highway was for the US to sell cars. But they don’t sell cars anymore.
Sucks when you are presented with how vile one must be to not have empathy for others
@@williamcrowley5506 What does this even mean?
People need to stop making this place so seem so imppasible. If they wanted to build threw it they would have no problem. It's 2 continents that don't really want to be connected, because if they did the road and rails would have been built long ago.
It also caused the death of a country: Scotland. Scotland tried to build a colonial settlement there but failed and ended up with a massively increased national debt, leading to the political union with England in 1707.
You really have to be desperate to make that journey. Glad I'm not in their shoes.
How about we help them fix their own countries....
The people who are in control stayed behind, don't want us to help. They see US help as "exploitation". Meanwhile they and the Chinese ...
fix yours
We spent all our money.
This would be much easier if we could convert their populations to atheism and make them rational humanists instead of deists.
It's the CIA's playground, that was the agreement after the _Cuba Missile Crisis_ 😢
"This Is Why the Americas Aren’t Still Connected by a Road"
It hurt my brain a bit to read.
@@russellinator - I put the titles in the comments as a way of archiving them. Sometimes, they change the titles.
Fun fact: The largest venomous snake is the King Cobra. The Bushmaster is the largest pit viper and can reach the same length as the King Cobra, but is not as heavy. The heaviest venomous snake is the Gabon viper (3x the weight of the Bushmaster or 2x the King Cobra) but it's much shorter.
Thought this was going to be about the road and not the plight of migrants trying to illegally cross borders?
Lol, why does the thumbnail look like a cliff with guns sticking out of this😂😂😂
This is why America isnt connected by road
The beauty of perfect nature.
Gonna be a long way back home for them
Why would China fund a bridge? Mainly because that's one of their tactics on the global scene now. They fund major projects in other countries as a type of favor. Kind of like a favor from the godfather that you know will have to be repaid in a fashion that you wouldn't normally want to do.
They make cars don't they ?
They make drugs don't they ?
They make virus don't they ?
You always remind me to like which actually works no matter what others think
13:12 When I was in Ciudad de Panama in 1989, there were little convenience stores scattered all over the city owned and run by Chinese people. And don't even get me started on the guys running the brothels, they were just freaky looking.
I found this interesting. I was stationed in Panama last century, in fact I was there when ownership of the Panama Canal was transferred to Panama. Several times the ending of the Trans-American Highway came up, and the consensus view from multiple Panamanians, was that the existence of violent headhunter tribes in the area that fought and killed several attempts by the Panamanian and Colombian military forces halted all attempts to join the haves of the Highway together.
Of course this might have been fictional story to fool the Norteamericanos. But then again, if true, would those governments admit to being stymied by primitive tribes?
This is just one big infomercial for how many lives could be saved by closing the border. The escalation from 2015 to 2024 is profound and deadly.
Panama tried closing their border. See the video. It's pointless. If you really want to stop the migration, try to improve their living conditions at home. But if people's motivations are strong enough (like now), they'll find ways through "closed" borders. Guaranteed.
Sorta, that's what it ultimately is but they clearly intended (as can be seen by their choice of words) for it to garner sympathy for those ia's and spur people into wanting to either get a road built or something along that general line of thinking.
The people (real human beings) are escaping death, closing borders guarantees that *_more_* die
Thx Joe.
How is Biden responsible?
@@robertmcdonnold3038he is repeating what he has been hearing from Fox News
@@robertmcdonnold3038 did you not look at the chart? overlay Trump years in office with Biden's. This whole situation is completely Biden's fault. On his first day he started cutting Trumps executive orders to ribbons as everyone cackled in glee. NOW they have the nerve to blame it on Republicans for not voting on there bloated pork boarder bills that do more harm than good.
Thanks to the cooperate united companies
@@frescoservice5124 I'm talking about all the people crossing that gap and dyeing and being raped and molested and mugged. Then look at the numbers per year. Trump Years vs Biden Years. I'm sure the cartels down there love Biden.
Bruh that coffe looks disgusting
so don't drink it 😂
Up until just after 1900 Panama was a province of Colombia, which made it part of a South American country. Because of this, Panama is classified as part of South America. The border between South and North America is Panama's border with the country of Costa Rica. The two countries and, thus, the two American continents are connected by numerous roads.
☃️ Ok. I'm convinced that I should stay in my nice air condition apartment. 😁
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! 🎄
won't a dirt road form if all these people take the same route?
Not with all the rain. Maybe, but very slowly. Don’t forget the altitude changes.
@@Doc_Holiday he hehe...now, you should expect the angry mob of good-doers squealing about you rascist, white privileged, toxic whatever persona... :)))
@@Doc_Holidayyour vile bigotry is unwelcome, go away
You mentioned every thing in the first 8 minutes that would make a lovely horror movie. I'm going to have to finish this when I have recovered from the first half. 🤣🤣🤣
Hmm..funny how that chart jumps up right around the time Biden took office.
I was waiting to find out when a road had been built. Then I realized the words were just backwards in the title. It should read Why the Americas still aren't connected by a road.
The American language is only loosely based on English, in particular it has a lot of confusion around the use of negatives.
For example, "do" & "don't" or "can" & "can't" seem indistinguishable to Americans.
How sad. All these people with no place to go. They will find no refuge in the US and they seem to have no idea of that fact. And what a burden on US citizens having to spend the money to ship them home. The world is a mess…
Incredible number increase in 2021 and up. Dayam!
If it were to be China, it'll only take them 90 days to build that road
It is a block to people movement.
Bret Wienstein did a long form interview in which he described living in Panama and his experience with the people flowing through the Darian Gap. Interesting that the Chinese - wo dod not come from South America = do not take that route. They are ferried the 60 miles to Panama by Chinese paid boats, then given housing and provisions in Chinese Only camps - unlike the otherr migrants. The "other " migrants will allow themselves to be interviewed about their journey and their plans, but the Chinese will not speak to anyone.
Prof. Wienstein reports that a road is being built in Panama that seems to go no where, but it leads in the direction of the Gap, but people are not allowed to wander around the construction zones. Who is paying for it? Not Panama. Soros? Soros and the Chinese ?
Things that make you go, "hmmmm."
10:35 They are not "forced" to travel through there. No one is holding a gun to their heads, "Cross or die!". Travel is voluntary. Yes, I am aware they want a better life. But traveling through the Darien is voluntary.
The title would imply that the Americas were at one time connected by a road and now are not.
Hi Steve! Great information, thank you for sharing! Catch you next time!
I dislike videos where the reader picture on the click button does not appear in the video. I feel cheated.
llamas in the Darien? You just lost my confidence in your cred. Were you short on film footage?
A English fellow named Ian Hibell crossed the Darian Gap by, or more correctly with his, bicycle in 1972. He and a couple other guys made it entirely overland by cutting a path through with machetes. He wrote a book about the trip, amongst others he did, called Into the Remote Places. Interesting reading, but he seemed a bit crazy.
Largest venomous snake in the world is the King Cobra, you mean largest venomous snake in the America's is the Bushmaster.
Easiest way to build highway is to built it along the Coast line.
All mangrove swamps, impassable.
The background music in the beginning is from Scary Interesting. You should give them credit and do a little collaboration for view shares. You’re welcome.
It most likely came from a free music download website. There are hundreds of those on the web.
God's way of saying do not cross
I know a guy who went through the Darien in a guided group of migrants, back in the early '00s. At some point , for some reason, a couple on the group disagreed with the guides on the right way to follow. The guides dared them to go their own way, but warned them that, if they were wrong, they will suffer consequences. So they took the path they thought was the best, but that path ended up rejoining the route that the main group took with the guides. They both got raped as soon as they rejoined the main group, and then they continued their journey with the group, there was nothing else they could do. I guess they're somewhere in the US now, working hard on forgetting their traumatic experience. The guides were armed, high on drugs, and drunk at all times. Lots of indigenous people live deep into the Darien, the kind that live just like any farmer in any other poor country, but they're not friendly, and they don't like foreigners going through their land
I think with the recent political events in the USA, the number of people trying to cross the Darian Gap will decrease to pre-2021 levels.
Levison Wood walked from , I think the right top of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama & finished in Columbia. Through jungles mountains. Guides & corruption. Animals to deadly snakes, fer de lance, pit viper & everything else that wanted to bite. Interesting DVD!
Did you used to narrate the US Military News channel?
So where do people buy beer?
The real reason is because the US did not invest in Panama despite all the earnings they got from the Canal. A route similar to the one made from Florida to Key West with bridges
woooow.... well, THAT is interesting. I wandered around on the alps, crossed Europe by mtb, climbed the heights, walked EFI (every F inch) by foot.
Now, THIS would be a great challenge! Maybe I can even make an adventure outdoor enterprise out of that...
like Everest. I am sure there will be plenty of bored and rich adrenalin people out there... :))
The Bushmaster is the largest venomous Viper species on the planet and largest in the Americas. The King cobra is the largest venomous one with one nearly 19 feet back in the 40s
5:23 Bushmaster is NOT the largest venomous snake in the world, that is the King Cobra BY FAR and it is found in several regions in south and central america and i believe trinidad has some as well.. not just in the darien gap..
Nobody is forcing anybody to cross the Darien gap. Countries must have borders or they are destroyed.
Exactly, their verbage is very telling.
800k? the stretch is not as dangerous as it was thought
Many tougher projects have been done all over the world, Great Wall of China, Zuider Zee, Trans Siberian railroad, Alaskan pipeline, etc.
Rather than a road, just do a 2ce per week, overnight ferry service! Several times, I took a 45 minute, drive-on ferry that connects northern Morocco to southern Spain. Make it lucrative enough, a ferry system might work, but the ride would be long! The money gangs are collecting could go to something much more effective and acceptable.
International economic development planners (my former career) may lack the imagination to do this.
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There used to be a ferry service that went from Panama to Columbia, it closed down in 2020. A casualty of covid lock downs.
Well lets just say its probably alot easier than people are willing to admit.
Look at the #1 highway in Canada and what they did to cross British Columbia and Ontario. Some of the worst terrain in the world was encountered and they still managed to do it.
If it's so easy why don't _you_ go there & do it?
@@alanhat5252 money why else. If I had the influence and the money I would absolutely make an effort.
lots of people are now are now going through the Darien gap now
If they each bring one brick, and set it into extending a paved road, the 500000 people would have completed the road.
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I like how you subtly hint every so often when it's relevant to a video that you don't like people who believe crazy things and do stupid dangerous things. I get that your channel is less about people and politics and more about animals and places (and often problems), and that it's best to "stay in your lane" (especially today because saying not very much at all can cause a certain segment or two of us to get pretty upset) so that everyone can keep up with the interesting and important earth and animal situations you choose to present to us.
I had the idea that you could make a second channel to speak on, a different category! You wouldn't necessarily even have to promote it here (obviously it'd help at the start, but you don't have to, and if you do, you don't have to forever..) It's obvious to me that you know how to do proper research, and you're a good presenter with a captivating voice, so if you applied yourself I'm sure you'd be successful (and make more of that positive change in the world you're hoping and striving for). When I make this suggestion I'm definitely not saying that you're not doing enough - this channel look like a LOT of work for you. But... if you've got hired helpers freeing you up from the menial tasks like, well, you know what they all are, there's a tonne), maybe you've got the time to start! Although new projects are usually difficult, I think that because you've got your foot in the door from earlier, you might be someone allowed to become successful (if you put out good things, obviously - they're not just promoting ANYONE)
... well, ok, they definitely are. But not in the news space.
... well, ok, they so so definitely are. But not in the _sensible_ news space!
Ooops! My comment's really long! Keep up the good work - I've watched probably 95% of the videos you've made over the last 3 years. No, it wasn't slow and steady, I found you maybe 6 months ago, and about 3/4 of what I've watched has been in 4-5 episode runs, usually in the evening - they cheer me up. Except sometimes... Sometimes they don't have happy endings lol.
Anyway, I like your content, I just don't _like_ your content. This was my message to you. Hi, whatever your name is! Hi!
So its like a no brainer. Breed alligators and snakes and release them there...
One Word Greed!
Despite all the hazards of the Darian Gap, we must remember... back tens of thousands of years ago it was very very very very very easy to cross from the Bering Strait all the way down to Patagonia. Humans did it with no problems at all. Just ask any scientist.
Follow your own advice, "just ask any scientist", or better than that, ask someone who's tried it.
4:50 The way that you show the equator at an angle is rather awkward to say the least. Some peoples might not be as familiar with the shape of landmasses as I am. It would have been better to show it at a more horizontal angle closer to what you typically see on maps.
Forced to cross...poor choice of a statement. No one forces the people to do this other than cartel.
so in other words they were forced to do it?
They were showing the shanty towns and the constant guaranteed floods. 🌊⚰️ 🌊 ⚰️⚰️⚰️
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Living in those conditions, America must seem like Heaven to them.
YEA
Cartels profit but also NGO's
how about usa sanctions?
I think if they finished it there tourism would boom for countries along the highway. I for one would love to make the drive as far south as the road would take me.
Ill sum it up for you theres a part of the jungle in panama called the durian gap its like the toughest rain forest terrain ever to get through impossible to get heavy machinery out there also theyre just poor and not gonna pay for shit for no reason it doesnt benefit Panama enough
This channel good English has titles.
But, if there was a road, it would be easier to find people “trespassing”. Who would ever go through the jungle when there’s a good road?!?
0:19 does it then connect them apart?
You're completely ignoring the problem of gangs controlling the area.
There are no such things gangs out there it's all a myth.
He literally said cartels control the area.
7:30 he mentioned it
Theres no cartels in the jungle, its hard to survive in the aarea @bekaz13
He completely ignored that his math was completely wrong. There is way more than 10,000 people a day showing up to America. It’s probably 7 million a year not 520,000.
I wonder if the USA is paying Panama and others NOT to build highways to decrease the illegal immigration issue. Hmmm.
When a teenager in the '70's I started working on a plan to do a similar bike ride (Canada to Tiera del Fuego). My father (who'd lived in Mexico before I was born) talked me out of it due to the thieves in Mexico who preyed on foreigners. Noone talked about the Darien gap.
if 500,000 people cross that gap in one year, you will need a guide to find your way. That path would be beaten down, and there would be plenty of signs of previous travelers
Are you guys still watching
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No im seeing
Imagine
Nope, I'm listening
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The title is about a road not illegal’s!
at 6:47 that's not dirty water, that's tea!
The narrator frequently uses the term “forced” in describing conditions someone traversing this area endures. I believe he meant to say “chooses”.
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They should have built a bridge like the one in Florida to the Keys.
The bushmaster is NOT the largest venomous snake in the world, king cobras and black mambas both get longer. The bushmaster is the world’s biggest viper
Why not work to make your country a better place instead of dragging others down?
Amen!
What is the teaser (false?) picture; I never saw it in the video.
thank you
Many areas are just too dangerous to drive across. I'm talking about criminality.
It's a natural buffer
Who is forcing these ppl to take these dangerous route
Sponsored by American border control. 😅
Democrat Party
Well they do run the country and probably will for the next five years I mean no one's crazy enough to vote for the republicans at this moment in time,are they?
King cobra is 17 plus feet and is venomous.
The quality of your content has been consistently on a slide. Change your coffee roasters maybe?
Wouldn't it be easier to travel along the coast than through the mountains and jungles?
That's not what the video is about. It's about why they haven't built a road across the darien gap. Go troll somewhere else
@@arthurdavis1065 right.. but it's still a valid question related to the topic of the video.
An unofficial road is more conducive to illegal trade, saved you 20 minutes
That's an inaccurate understanding. Desperate people will find a way is more accurate.
The narrators voice is so annoying. But at least I can hear it. I actually don't watch some of these videos just because of the sound of the voice. And the waste of my time with the coffeestunt. But I like the stories sometimes. Peace
He had a mountain bike so he didn't actually finish the journey maybe call Netflix and try filming the skipped gap crossing that close to iconic status 😅
They should build artificial islands along one of the coasts and then use the new islands to link the two roads together.
If you took a plane then you can't claim that you biked the whole way. People have done it on motorcycles.