The transcript describes a journey through the Darien Gap, a 66-mile stretch of jungle connecting South America and Central America. Migrants, mostly from Haiti, Venezuela, Ecuador, China, and India, undertake this treacherous journey in hopes of reaching the U.S. The journey involves trekking through rivers, mud, and steep mountainsides, facing exhaustion, disease, drowning, and the risk of robbery, assault, or murder. This year, five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year, with a record number of them being children.
The narrator, Anderson Cooper, introduces Nick Paton Walsh and his team, who recently walked the entire route. They encountered graphic and hard-to-watch scenes, but their goal was to shed light on the reality of the situation. The journey is described as a "migrant trail to America, sometimes a dream soldier, a nightmare first."
The narrator also highlights the involvement of a drug cartel in the operation, which controls the routes and is the law in the part of the Colombian border near Panama. The cartel charges for entry and for people to walk on, with over 800 people in a camp at the time of the journey. The journey is organized as it makes more money, and the cartel gave the team permission to be there.
The journey is described as an "untold number do not make it a much, much bigger number." The narrator mentions that the pandemic has turned the tough journey into the unlivable for some people. The journey is also described as a "journey of pain, hope, loss, and grit."
The narr
1. The text describes a journey through the Darien Gap, a 66-mile stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama, which serves as the only land route connecting South America to Central America [Document(page_content="00:00:50.35: between Colombia and Panama.\n00:00:52.09: So migrants hoping to get to the US\n00:00:54.52: have to get through the Darien Gap first.\n00:00:57.29: That means trekking through rivers\n00:00:59.09: and mud and up steep mountainsides\n00:01:01.53: along the way.", metadata={})].
2. Migrants face various challenges along the journey, including exhaustion, disease, drowning, and the risk of being robbed, assaulted, or killed [Document(page_content="00:01:02.30: They face exhaustion, disease, drowning,\n00:01:05.00: and the\n00:01:05.20: very real risk of being robbed assaulted\n00:01:07.83: or even killed.", metadata={})].
3. This year, five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year, with a record number of them being children [Document(page_content="00:01:14.61: To see what they face.\n00:01:17.18: Nick Paton\n00:01:19.11: Walsh and his team recently\n00:01:20.51: walked the entire route.\n00:01:22.18: Some of the things he saw along\n00:01:23.62: the way are graphic and hard to watch.\n00:01:25.52: But we want you to see the reality\n00:01:27.22: of what's happening on the track.\n00:01:29.76: A migrant trail to America\n00:01:47.04: Sometimes a\n00:01:47.64: dream soldier, a nightmare first.\n00:01:51.51: And beauty is deepest in a place\n00:01:54.05: you may never get out of.\n00:01:56.98: And the need to keep moving\n00:01:58.92: is the only thing left to carry.\n00:02:01.22: Roughly\n00:02:02.22: a quarter of a million\n00:02:03.36: humans last year\n00:02:04.52: walked for four deadly days\n00:02:06.56: through this, the Dorian Gap.\n00:02:09.80: An untold number do not make it\n00:02:12.60: a much, much bigger number.\n00:02:14.37: Do\n00:02:15.47: And with every moment of success,\n00:02:17.77: resilience and even cost and suffering\n00:02:20.64: evermore come\n00:02:21.77: and they come in\n00:02:22.81: and the world may be on the move.", metadata={})].
4. The journey is organized by a drug cartel, and migrants pay to get through the Darien Gap [Document(page_content="00:03:34.08: This is a large voluntary\n00:03:35.22: trafficking operation\n00:03:36.88: run by a drug cartel\n00:03:37.92: who control the routes\n00:03:38.7