'We can now understand just how bad it is': 70 miles in the Darien Gap - Velshi - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Award winning journalists Caitlin Dickerson and Lynsey Addario traveled to a 70 mile stretch of mountainous jungle terrain called the Darien Gap that has long been considered dangerous and nearly impassable.

Today, the Darien Gap is a common route for hundreds of thousands of migrants from all over the world traveling north in hopes of making it to the United States. The United Nations estimates that roughly 800-thousand people may attempt to cross the Darien Gap this year alone. Many of them are children. - Aired on 08/11/2024.

[LT Barclay]

1. Jacques Cousteau near the end of his life realized that environmental problems were people problems. He noted a couple

of things that people in the states vitally need to understand.
First, if the world's budget for war for 1 year was diverted to humanitarian causes, there wouldn't be a need for this. All the world could have healthcare, food, clean water, and sanitation.
Second, the industrialized countries need to offer culturally sensitive development to other nations, not turn them into a cheap labor pool for corporations to exploit. The World Bank offers loans to build factories, saddling the developing world with debt.
This is both appalling and frightening. i'm not keeping up with news of the world, so I'll ask here; are we offering Central and South America any aid beyond guns, or is our government still having a tantrum because they are starting to drift from our sphere of influence?

[NowsTheTime]

2. This is what repubs are blind to..