66 Miles Through the Darién Gap
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The Bizarre Conditions of the Colombian Cartel
"The way you've been going a matter of hours, and it just seems an endless series of river crossings," she says. "And at times very steep climbs where you're struggling through sort of swampish conditions, it's utterly bizarre." One child we met along the way, we'll call him Wilson here, we've changed everything of his names because it's sort of safer for them that way. He had been separated from his parents, not really abandoned. What they've done is give him to a porter, and part of what the Colombian cartel do is offer sort of a porter service for people who've got the money".
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