The treacherous journey for migrants before they get to Mexico

 Washington Examiner:

U.S.-bound migrants who attempt the 60-mile trek across the Darien Gap risk death at the hands of ruthless thieves and unforgiving elements in one of the planet's most treacherous jungles.

Murder, robbery, deadly torrential rains, and poisonous snakes abound in the remote pass on the border of Colombia and Panama. Recently, a half-dozen dazed and haggard men from Cuba and Haiti emerged from the gap and shared their experience on dramatic video captured by photojournalist Michael Yon .

“Many people were dead,” one Cuban, who did not give his name, said in halting English. “Sometimes the group sleeps, and the river [rises] up, and the people [die]."

"All glory is fleeting," read a tattoo on his chiseled torso. Just below it, a stallion etched in black ink galloped across his abdomen.

He recounted seeing a woman and her baby fatally shot by bandits and said eight people who set out with him died.

The robbers who prey on migrants working their way north through the Darien Gap overtake their victims on horseback and show no mercy, he said.

“They take all the money. Many people say, ‘I don’t have money.’ They look in the bag and [say] ‘You have money!’" the man recalled.

Pointing his index finger like a gun, he grimly demonstrated what came next.

“Boom! That. It’s very bad,” he said with a grimace.

The man said he was robbed twice — once at gunpoint and another time by a knife-wielding thief.

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This is before they even get to Central America.  The area is in Colombia close to where it meets the isthmus of Panama where they start the trek up through central America.  It demonstrates how misguided the Biden administration is in blaming the migration on the govenrments of Central America..