(Part 1) The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America | The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper

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This is just one enormous

traffic jam of people through the jungle.

It's a hot

war.

Everybody look, fire.

Everybody made be die here.

But

what was there to see took so

much

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Tonight, we take you on a dangerous

and difficult journey

through the debris and gap.

The only land route

connecting South America

to Central America.

It's a 66 mile

stretch of jungle

between Colombia and Panama.

So migrants hoping to get to the US

have to get through the Darien Gap first.

That means trekking through rivers

and mud and up steep mountainsides

along the way.

They face exhaustion, disease, drowning,

and the

very real risk of being robbed assaulted

or even killed.

So far this year, five times