Posted on 04/02/2021 5:23:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Madeisy and her Mother contacted us last night. Chuck Holton took the call. They provided exact location via GPS. I will not reveal their location other than Nicaragua. They are making fast progress to America.
Madeisy (16) is with her brother Miguel (12) and their Mother. According to conversation with Chuck, they have not eaten in two days and last night slept on a floor. We last saw them in Colombia and began tracking from there.
They are Haitian and native language is Creole. All three also speak Spanish, having spent the past couple years in South America. We first met up with the family in Nicocli, Colombia as they were preparing to enter Darien Gap.
We lost contact for about 27 days until finally Madeisy pinged our partner, Japanese journalist Masako Ganaha, who had just arrived back in Japan. Masako alerted me in Panama, I alerted Chuck Holton. Chuck’s Spanish is fluent and so Chuck is handling direct comms. (Masako was with us on the border in Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Colombia, and Panama.)
The Madeisy Batista family had good income source in Chile. They arrived to Colombia with iPhones, mother had expensive jewelry, and they seemed happy. Madeisey and Miguel were energetic and happy on 03 March in Nicocli when Masako and I were talking with them. (Especially Masako, who took lead.) All said they liked Chile and were doing well. They were not skinny.
Biden was elected.
Bang!
Start gun in a race to America.
The Batista family pulled stakes from Chile, headed north, where we met them per chance in Colombia at the southern edge of Darien Gap.
Darien Gap is about 60 miles of roadless, lawless jungle between Colombia and Panama. Some of the most dangerous jungle in the world. The Rape Jungle. Jungle of Death.
Migrants carried water jugs. None that I asked carried water filters, iodine tablets, or any other method for safeguarding drinking water. A potentially lethal mistake.
As best we can tell at this point, water is likely the source for about 12 deaths in their group. We have no solid information but this is what we have from Chuck’s conversation with Madeisy and her Mother.
Roughly 12 died.
1) One man drowned.
2) Two women swept away by river.
3) One baby, pictured above, died after reaching edge on Panama side.
4) Others died of illness or something other than violent death. Neither Madeisy nor Mother mentioned anyone being murdered.
5) Two women who died were pregnant. We likely have photos of them before they left Colombia.
Madeisy and Mother have been transmitting to Chuck more videos and photos but are having data problems. We have others video and photos that we have not published.
Mother said men emerged from jungle in the Darien with M-4, M-16, and AK-47 rifles. People notoriously get the nomenclature wrong. Chuck, former Army Ranger and now a war correspondent, audited Mother’s words as they conversed. Chuck believes she knows the difference. Chuck said if the attackers had M-4s and M-16s, they likely are narcos.
Madeisy and Mother report that the women were robbed but Madeisy was spared when her Mother handed over gold necklace. Bandits did not steal iPhones because they could not use iPhones. The other women were raped.
Mother told Chuck where they plan to cross into America.
Darien Gap: Sikh in The Jungle (The Dangerous Immigrant Route, Colombia to Panama)
Obviously, the teat of America is worth far more to them than their lives, their safety, or their sexual well-being.
I hope these people either retrieve their sanity or undertake far more random punishments to keep them from the US.
Do not ever call them migrants. They are Illegal aliens and should always face summary deportation without a hearing.
It is sad that folks lost their lives trying to be illegal aliens.
These people don’t seem to be poor either. They are planning to deliberately circumvent U.S. immigration law.
I notice the family saud ghey had a good income source in China.
Explains a lot. I bet Soros is in on this too
No way so many have tge 3 to 5k tp oay coyotes
Bump!
It may be more about ideology, making the US Venezuela. Which is to say I would not be surprised one bit if a wildly disproportionate number of these criminal invaders were ardent socialists/communists.
Chile
Someone needs to get the word out to these illegal invaders that the “free” Country they plan to be free in won’t be free for long. At the rate we’re going, they will end up being part of China’s holomodor.
“... All said they liked Chile and were doing well...”
That’s what I don’t get. Why leave home, if it’s OK at home?
Two of the dead migrants who died? Unlike the dead ones who lived?
When I was a lad at school in the 50s, the Weekly Reader had stories about the fantastic Pan-America Highway that would soon reach from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego. It has never been finished. The Darien Gap has foiled all attempts to actually unite North America and South America by road.
He apologizes at the end of the article for any errors. He enters the stories on his cell phone, usually while on the move and they are usually not edited or even proofed.
I’m somewhat familiar with the northern Choco region of Colombia and the Darien
It’s foolish for all but serious expedition folks or natives to even attempt to cross the Darien gap
It’s the wettest place on earth and extremely inhospitable with jungle mountain soaring from sea level to 6200 feet which is serious peak prominence in jungle terrain....think Borneo
Add wildlife that can kill you....an infestation of bad assed snakes
Jaguars
And guerrilla groups that are formidable ...
Murderous outlaws....
It’s about 70 miles of dense jungle terrain if you go straight
The sad part is it’s very cheap to leapfrog it from Colombia to Panama in the Caribbean
Beautiful shore side islands ....truly the worlds most azure anchorages and little border control
You can pay a panga a small sum to be let off anywhere a few hours boat ride and miss all that misery
I think much of this is media hype
One fact I don’t get is why are they claiming to be in Nicaragua now when last lost in the northern Choco?
It’s a helluva haul from the Darien province Panama to Nica border
The Lost Corvair of the Darien:
http://thecitypaperbogota.com/travel/pacific-travel-guide/the-lost-corvair/1429
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