Every year, several hundred thousand migrants illegally cross the Darién, between Colombia and Panama.
A TF1 team crossed with them this jungle, one of the most hostile places in the world.
A major exceptional report broadcast this Thursday in the 8 p.m. news.
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It is a race towards a better future, like an aspiration. A dream to the point of unconsciousness, which could turn into a nightmare at any moment. In a major exceptional report broadcast this Thursday, October 3 on the 8 p.m. news, a TF1 team accompanies, in the heat as well as under tropical showers, one of these groups of people who left from South America in the hope of reach the United States, the time of a four-day journey, on foot, in the heart of the terrible jungle of Darién, a lawless zone on the border of Colombia and Panama, gateway to Central America.
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“We have chosen to focus on one of the largest migratory routes in the worldexplains our reporter Michel Scott in the video below. Normally, you cannot travel there. The region is covered in forests, without any paths. It’s the only place in all of the Americas where there is nothing but jungle, wild animals, criminal gangs thriving… And that’s where hundreds of thousands of people pass through every year. migrants from all over the world.”
The Darien nightmare: on the road to the American dreamSource : TF1 Info
If three quarters of these families are fleeing Venezuela and its repression, others come from further afield in South America, or even further afield, like these two Cameroonians who left Africa five months before starting this crossing. “It’s a walk from hellsays Michel Scott. You have to cross a mountain range and overcome other fairly significant elevation changes. And then, you have to cross torrents, rivers… There are passages that require climbing.” All while carrying large bags and young children, some of whom have disabilities.
“It was clandestine filming, complicated and quite risky. At the end of the journey, we could very well have had our images and equipment seized by the Panamanian border guards. But in the end, it paid off. Because that it is an adventure in which we will immerse the viewer himselffinally promises our reporter. We are going to immerse ourselves in the reality of a march of migrants, of people full of hope, ready to do anything, including losing their lives, to achieve this dream.”
Find this exceptional report in its entirety at the top of this article.
