Darien Gap: The Terrifying Truth About the World's Most Dangerous Road!

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Is it safe to cross the Darien Gap?
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[@fouristv]

How is it officially (Guinness world record) the longest highway on the planet? There’s an obvious break in the highway (Darien gap) so wouldn’t that make it two separate roads?

[@AtlantaPrin]

Because somebody was able to get a vehicle brother Darien Gap something like a motorcycle made it officially a road

[@lyssanch3096]

​@@AtlantaPrinenglish please

[@thomasthomas8102]

Obvious. Guiness is wrong.

[@hookedonplatypus]

Despite being separated, they're still a part of the same highway system. It doesn't say contiguous road or highway.

[@tlsmack800]

I have read that the gap acts as a buffer that prevents agricultural and livestock diseases from crossing continents. This may be the best argument against completing the highway.

[@djp1234]

I'm really surprised no one has built a road there in the past 500 years, when no one cared about the environment or indigenous people.

[@krillin876]

What would be the purpose?

[@djp1234]

@@krillin876 travel, trade. The normal human stuff.

[@krillin876]

@@djp1234 but you have boats....

[@djp1234]

@@krillin876 would you rather drive to work or take a boat?

[@krillin876]

@@djp1234 boat ride sounds like fun..

[@mountainmover777]

Thank you God for the Darien Gap! I can't Imagine the flow of chaos if there was a highway through there..

[@sheaholloway9537]

It's already horendous! All coming to "come on in to..." Biden's America. When a nation cannot feed and tend to its own citizens and veterans, it cannot tend to millions of immigrants.

[@bugipurnomo6536]

Fake longest road..

[@giobiology7264]

Who’s here after balds video

[@adebolabloke6962]

Me. Although I did the walk myself a couple of days back. The key thing is to just jog it and ignore the heat and pain. Worth it

[@ayushofficial8600]

Timmy katter blad 😂

[@javanomondi7406]

Me 😂

[@eriklarson9137]

Me. But this video is dumb, and has no actual content in it.

[@sLaMz1o1]

Baldurs??

[@imthatnggruponthatnag7784]

Leave the gap alone.

[@rubenquezada3830]

Drain the swamp

[@Ry_Guy]

​@@rubenquezada3830Drain your mom

[@thetruthsetsyoufree1492]

What about building a road tunnel?

[@pippilongstocking-qs7fm]

I had not heard of the Darien Gap until yesterday. I watched a video of 2 gringos traveling in an old off road vehicle using the old train track route 😮. The comments warned them of their risks & dangers of that route. I now see why their comments were so harsh

[@deltube.]

Can you link that video please?

[@pippilongstocking-qs7fm]

​@@deltube.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqPdfax-pMqqiZosi=BSQsQogwf6kVDTOn

[@robiniuseckhardt6492]

Please link the video

[@pippilongstocking-qs7fm]

@@robiniuseckhardt6492 I did

[@pulakification]

@@deltube.he is referring to Bald and Bankrupt video.

[@nunyabidness117]

It would be a cocaine superhighway.

[@christiansanden8005]

Dont thinks so, that would be a better way to control of the borders, just stupid that this gap exists

[@bradsimpson8724]

There are several political factors that keep the gap from being crossed and drug trafficking is definitely one of them. Another standout issue that fewer people know about is livestock. Foot and mouth disease is essentially unheard of in North America, but is still quite prevalent in South America. A road would allow the easy transport of livestock, which would risk reintroduction back into North America.

[@angelacalifornia7756]

is foot and mouth disease more commonly known as trench mouth?@@bradsimpson8724

[@Magst3r1]

The CIA already transported the cocaine into the country

[@wcole1385]

Good content and information!

[@SGilles919]

I once drove from D.C. to Indiana and I thought THAT was long!

[@alexaecho4273]

I did Chicago to nyc lol I had never seen so many miles and miles of nothing before.

[@chuch541]

I used to drive many thousands of miles a week as a mover.

[@stanborys1122]

@@alexaecho4273 Used to do 600mls /day when working average 27days a month thou I've never seen nothing.😄

[@OpenCarryUSMC]

LOL. I’ve been across the U.S. coast to coast 6 times and I’m not a trucker. The last two were in 2019 with an F350 and a 5th wheel across the “top” (WY, MO, OH, WV, PA) then down the east coast and back across the “bottom” until AR then north and home. The others…. Fast trips during military moves while towing a car and out critters. And now I’m building a 40’ bus into a motor home to travel for 5 years or so in retirement.

[@stwv6673]

Damn, never heard of this before, but super interesting. Great Video!

[@neal-stewart834]

girl on a motorcycle put the bike on a boat on the east side she went freom patagonia to alsska Itchy Boots Channell the vid still exists

[@bradsimpson8724]

There are a ton of geopolitical issues at play that contribute to the lack of interest in bridging the gap. Here's a few: 1) Prior to 1903, Panama was a province of Colombia and fought a war for independence. With the backing of the US Navy protecting the coasts and the Darién Gap making a land invasion impossible, Panama was pretty secure. 2) The drug trade and illegal immigration through the region would skyrocket if a road was built. 3) Foot and mouth disease has been eradicated in North America, but not in South America. The agricultural industry has always been resistant to livestock crossing those borders, and a road would make that easier.

[@frostflower5555]

So if Panama was Colombian before 1903 why is it separate? Aren't they the same peopel?

[@bryantint1339]

Who cares about drugs? I only worry about Illegals. Who cares? Illegals and Trump are stupid!

[@learnallican3627]

Thank you! this video is so annoying. He dosent get to the point

[@tz8785]

@@frostflower5555 Panama was always not very well connected to the rest of Columbia and when Columbia did not ratify the Hay-Herrán Treaty, the US suddenly was very sympathetic to the separatists in the region.

[@Zwei-Rosen]

@@frostflower5555As I understand it, there was a separatist movement in Panama around 1900, which was supported by the US. The US were finishing the Panama Canal due to strategic considerations. To maintain the control over the canal, they had an interest in installing Panama as satellite state with a string puppet regime. The US sent their navy to block colombian ships from invading their separatist region and secured the independence of Panama. (Once I even saw a film scene , in which the US First Lady designed the flag of Panama 🇵🇦) In result, Panama has no interest in closing the Darien Gap, because it could bring the Colombians to the idea of re-claiming lost territory. In Colombia roads are reaching close to the border, the main part of the Gap lies in Panama.

[@aaronwentzel4145]

I think you mean Prudhoe Bay, not Pond Bay.

[@Jsanon00]

Great video

[@bhsarkar]

Matriarchy is also followed in regions of North East India.

[@derrickcox7761]

Careful what you wish for.

[@NewYorkDigital]

Um, yeah, the road is quite possible, but north america is not trying to make immigration any easier.

[@angelacalifornia7756]

With the current fake pres (bidum) I'd make you a wager (bet) on that comment.

[@IronGwaziJoseph]

​@@angelacalifornia7756 Who's bidum I know typing is hard for you guys but come on.

[@GinaKirkland-sy9nt]

So wait, is there or isn't there a ferry that bypasses that. And do they load cars

[@pablobilbao9258]

Give the construction contract to a Chinese company.

[@BionicPig95]

Idea: giant airplane to drop stream of concrete over the gap, easily creating a path

[@KrisPaape]

Don't worry - they're building a big bridge there now!

[@sheaiek]

7:16 "Multiple" rivers and streams maybe an understatement. They crossed a total of 180 rivers and streams and had to build improvised bridges over 125 of them using the trunks of palm trees were dense enough to hold the weight of the Land Rover.

[@Cherrypizzasquad]

Watch the rest of the video.

[@aashaalexander4677]

It makes sense why they can't when you consider that the Amazon rainforest has similar reasons. The environment there as well as the thousands of species and many tribes simply make it too difficult and costly to put a road there.

[@frostflower5555]

So I don't get it. Once they cross into Panama what happens? Do they all want to stay there?

[@sheaholloway9537]

Dude. That is the stop-gap country until they are guided by cartel, coyotes, and NGOs to the grand old US of A. They enter illegaly, claim "asylum" and are released into the interior of the country. They commit crimes, take jobs, resourses and money out of the country. Furthermore, they then send the money they make back to their home countries whilst sucking up the USs resources from school lunch programs, overuning emergency rooms, congesting roads and housing, etc. etc. and never pay a dime in taxes, whilst citizens foot the bill.

[@MSmith-mb1ut]

Most want to get to the US. That’s their ultimate goal.

[@miroslavhoudek7085]

Given tunneling costs as much as 1 billion USD per kilometer, this could be solved easily for ~70 billion USD. Not great, not terrible.

[@traningday]

Who is going to maintain that in the middle of the jumble

[@sm7baller435]

@@traningdayI’d do it

[@thetruthsetsyoufree1492]

I think a road tunnel construction would be possible to overcome many issues.

[@jhrdailies]

then make a tunnel or immersive tunnel highway for it. 😅😁

[@_andrewbailey]

Goodluck Lord Miles xo

[@christiansanden8005]

Never understood that shit, building the Panamericana and no way through that stupid gap, just incredible

[@detroid89]

It's not a "stupid gap". I think it existing serves many purposes. Can you imagine the chaos it will bring to the US if a road was built? 😅

[@OpenCarryUSMC]

@@detroid89imagine the human and other pests that would easily migrate north. The gap is there to keep invasive and deadly species out of the north as well as to impede drug and human trafficking.

[@gmicg]

La route du Darien est réalisable. Il suffit simplement de le vouloir.

[@alexaecho4273]

No Shyte, that’s why tens of thousands are making it thru a hunch of countries and all the way to the USA border.

[@theonlydjtopcat]

I think you mean "You just have to want to die" lol

[@robertshepherd8543]

not sure. Almost every project of civiilization has required "costs" in terms of cultural sacrifices or environmental ones. Even the settlement of western North America meant that the tribes who liked to maraud and plunder had to find a different livelihood. When Romans subdued northern Europe the tribesmen had to eventually become more sedentary - ultimately submitting to agriculture, and giving up hunter-gatherer seize-and-plunder subsistence.

[@canihavethesauce]

you're moronic.

[@angelacalifornia7756]

WOW

[@lukedesselle2491]

Its being built now in the form of a bridge

[@johngroll9186]

A 4 lane Highway through the Darian Gap would greatly facilitate trade and tourism between the two continents.

[@OpenCarryUSMC]

And the transmission of both critter and human infestations.

[@mostakahmedsimon1304]

Never build the highway there. 😢

[@adenwellsmith6908]

I'm surprised the drug lords haven't spent a bit of cash on a bulldozer and closed the gap.

[@sheaholloway9537]

Actually, they are building a bridge to nowhere. Look up how a bridge is getting built in the Panama jungle and the bridge foreman (when asked why the bridge) said, "to transport yuka plant". Yeah, okay, right....

[@adenwellsmith6908]

For the drug lords, its a business opportunity. Private toll road? Cash Cheap to build? Tick Used for other things? Of course. Drugs and smuggling people. @@sheaholloway9537

[@DanielleAdamstranspride]

Racists in Panama are trying to do that to push migrants escaping persecution elsewhere

[@harlow743]

WE can go to the moon but nit build a 60 mile road ?

[@_Meng_Lan]

Or a small few mile bridge connecting monaco (africa) to spain... .. probably for same reason.. keep Europe seperate from Africa

[@angelacalifornia7756]

Do you really believe we've been to the moon? Even now? C'mon man, wake the ----- up. Okay big maybe, but then imagine Elon's Tesla flying around out there aimlessly, no need for a hwy out there now is there? LoL. I went into Columbia via Brasil, Rio La Tigre river, won't go into details but it was an interesting and adventurous trip, back when I had a ton of huevos ( that i don't have, wasn't born with, and well, enough said, lol)

[@eriklarson9137]

@@angelacalifornia7756 Oh me too. I have done scarier things than you have.

[@armanadhitama]

moon...LOL

[@USGrant21st]

Why? The Darien Gap reduces the flow of drugs and illegal aliens into US. Let it be.

[@user-om1bb7gn3y]

Bro really said "cartaghena" 💀💀💀

[@bookert.w2022]

No road,period!

[@ssabt12]

Why not build a tunnel using tbm.. there will be no ecological damage

[@isaachaggerty2000]

I’m sure they’d be able to build one if there wasn’t so much red tape to cut through.

[@Scaleearnhart]

Yeah it's pretty cool how the gap was just unpassable enough, that by the time the world was developed enough to do it, it was no longer a good idea.

[@oscargantes3423]

0:13 South and Noth America are two continents. Central America is an island. Haha

[@henrikchristensen7844]

Safe the nature no road.🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴

[@blancaestela4197]

no road, it is there by our maker, of heaven and earth, for a purpose.

[@SuperPlayloud]

At 0:26 you mentioned venomous snakes but you showed a non-venomous snake species which doesn't even live in that region.They live in certain territories in Eurasia. What you showed is a harmless Grass snake. Please do not spread misinformation about these beautiful snakes, I don't wish for people to kill them because they saw in this video that they are dangerous which they are not at all. They don't even bite you, they are the most peaceful snakes in the world! (but they do let out a stinky fart when scared)

[@rsafree1139]

This video is a joke. It’s filled with stock images that may or may not be of the pass, and very vague information. Pretty sure he slapped this together with as little effort as possible

[@andrewlabreche1282]

8:45 why would Cubans be going through the gap

[@elmiribrahimov3641]

And Haitians. These countries are closer to the USA than Panama.

[@angelacalifornia7756]

lol

[@NorthernerDiaries]

Nothing is impossible. Let’s just say corruption and lack of motivation especially economical one, doesn’t make this project to be happening

[@Realhunt3r32]

Hi

[@ClownWorldOrder]

First 2:30 could've been cut out

[@jamiemoore9275]

Dont tread on the indigenous peoples territory. Leave the gap alone. Stay out.

[@migsvensurfing6310]

WHAT!! We still got some nature on this ball. Get rid of it NOW.

[@angelacalifornia7756]

Your BEAUTIFUL & FUNNY! IT'S THE WAY THEY THINK! Don't give them any ideas! & make a great BIG ol sign that say's "AMERICANS GO HOME,STAY HOME, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS OR...BE INVADED! take care of your own back yard, infrastructure, political problems for gods sake!" WTFU! "I'M NOT ABOUT SEEING AMAZON INDIANS WEARING NIKE TENNIS SHOES, SORRY!

[@cag1763]

Can't build a road...we are saving the earth for the next species of earth dwellers...

[@Truth-gus]

Maps??? Common

[@Sam4got]

Think people think! Why are the clothes so clean ? Think

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

Personally I think that based upon figures of 250,000 migrants and 1000 deaths per year, it might make sense to have a road through the area at some point, as it would help regularize migration for asylum seekers and reduce the deaths - also I have heard that a lot of trash and pollution of rivers is occuring because of waste left by migrants that might not otherwise occur if there was a maintained trail with trash cans and rest stops ie a hiking trail next to a highway with a couple maintained lanes. It just seems mad that they would see 1000 people die each year and they arn't protecting anything if it is being polluted by migration anyway. It may also keep people out of random areas and reduce predator risks by having a maintained trail. Undoubtedly some environmental damage might occur but it would likely offset damage being done by not having a safe route.

[@alexaecho4273]

I’m guessing the man power and the actual passing of vehicles would make it impossible unless they make the road as they’re going over it.

[@harrisn3693]

Honestly, to hell with those migrants, make a highway for easier commerce. Most of those plebs can make it big in their home countries, espically Indians from India. They can come legally without fueling the human trafficking element

[@sheaholloway9537]

How about stop trying to traverse such a gap to illegaly enter or "seek asylum" in the USA, especially given the law that states one must seek asylum in the closest country to the one in which one chooses to fly. Imagine that! Then... no deaths, no roads needed, and no disruption to the environment and tribes. Problem solved.

[@babysquid9833]

@sheaholloway9537 USA has a long and bloody history with interfering with Latin American governments for USA corporate interests. If the USA did not assist with coups, supplied rebels with arms, installed puppet leaders all to purposely fail that country’s economy, the irony there would be NO migrants from Latin America to the USA.

[@bryantint1339]

Building a road is a great idea, but not now. Wait.

[@Armyreaper]

Why not a bridge over part of the pacific ocean connecting Panama to Columbia

[@haveyouseengeorgehennen]

What's the urge to even pass through there and no just leave shit how it is? You can fly damn near anywhere, cargo ships can transport goods anyway, that's alot of money to built something that eventually nature will take back, it would mostly benefit immigrants and drug traffickers, everyone else with a life got no reason to even go out there other than to wonder around.

[@hermanbinngavionohermanbin8371]

I am not a professor in economics..but building a good road between the continent will bring enormous benefits ..not only to the locals but to the world.

[@simonw.1223]

How long would it be to walk it?

[@bradsimpson8724]

A seasoned gear-laden hiker on a difficult trail can do about 3 kilometers per hour. Known trails through the gap are between one hundred and one hundred sixty kilometers long. So if you were an experienced hiker following a known route, hiking eight hours a day, you could theoretically make it in 4-7 days if you had no incidents. This doesn't factor in weather, wildlife, cartels, local tribes, or river crossings. That said, there was a motorcycle expedition that crossed through the gap in eight days, and that's the fastest I recall ever hearing of someone making it through.

[@TheRiboka]

Saw some very fit guys being interviewed who said they crossed in 5 days. 7 or 8 out of their 55 person group died and they got robbed 4 times at gun or knife point

[@wildheartxxx135]

​@@TheRiboka5 days is enough to cross over to Mexico

[@tarafox5417]

10 to15 days

[@indulekhag5524]

build an overbridge road over the gap..

[@neal-stewart834]

may be a tunnell

[@user-ug9bd8sf5d]

No no road in the darien gap then it would be easier for migration of people into America! And it would ruin the natives home !

[@Thailinc]

China can build the highway.

[@christiansanden8005]

There would do it in 2 weeks👍👍

[@gmicg]

The road must be built anyway.

[@sheaholloway9537]

Thank you for a highly informative, digestable and succinct (non political) look into an area of the world little known to many whilst touching on a topic well known (immigration) around the world, but especially in the Americas. I shall now explore more of your channel.

[@ostkkfmhtsh012345678]

Well, since there are terrorists already in the Gap and often migrants who can't afford ferries to go around the Gap traverse the Gap, at this stage, to better protect border areas and ensure migrant safety and forest preservation, might as well complete the highway with a 2-lane 2-way road so migrants are diverted to a safer and less intrusive route while #Colombia and #Panamá can better protect their borders from terrorists and their forests from being ruined further due to the lack of a road linking the two sides of the Gap.

[@christiansanden8005]

Agree

[@neal-stewart834]

a tunnell No ?

[@BirdsOfGlass]

Brett Weinstein on JRE brought me here

[@zhubajie6940]

Shameful that the highway can't be constructed along the coast which would impact little and open up the economics of the two continents. What would it take a strip a couple hundred meters wide at most.

[@andregomez8220]

Honestly your accent was killing me lol but um yeah let's just leave that place alone ☣️

[@stanborys1122]

Just watched short note that someone presumably Chinese is building bridge between hwy1 in Panama to hwy90 in Colombia to bypass Darien Gap . No more details about it does anyone know anything about it or it's just BS story.

[@MSmith-mb1ut]

The United States doesn’t want the highway built through the Darien gap. It would make it much easier for any illegal activities from South America including drugs and migrants to get to the southern border.

[@itvirus2652]

Build the road

[@phanvien5275]

.

[@voiceofreason2674]

WEISS WERSA 🙄🙄🙄 I'm out !

[@alyria76]

Why are you using non-Panamanian indigenous footage to depict the real tribal peoples? There’s plenty of real footage available.

[@Ong.s_Jukebox]

How about underground roadway?

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

I don't understand why they must take that very dangerous route? Why not just take a Plane to a US Airport and enter that way?

[@adeemelkovzdshos1392]

Can’t illegally immigrate with a plane 😅

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

@@adeemelkovzdshos1392 But you can come as a Tourist and just not leave. It would be much safer. They tear up all their documents anyway, so what does it matter?

[@detroid89]

Dude come on man. 😂

[@leftmorningstar6954]

austrian painter was right about everthing

[@bruhmania7359]

lol .

[@SofaKingShit]

Yeah winter invasions of Russia are definitely nothing to regret, as Edith might say.

[@Sedgewise47]

🤨Screw the “environment”! 🧐How could conquering this frontier not be a net-plus for everyone? 🧐Since there are already people living there, we’re not exactly talking about an “unspoiled” wilderness, are we?

[@jamesgavin5269]

I think a highway should be built with strict environmental rules to protect nature and the locals.

[@georgemhden2149]

Ik it does indeed damage the cose enviroment, but we're talking about a huge jungle and a 4/6 lane highway, which would save soooo much fuel

[@EricFordock-gm6dq]

Build the dam road.

[@hearthrob300]

I've seen Darien's gap before, trust me you don't want to go anywhere near it.

[@JoshuaAlvin27]

who's here after watching The Shawn Ryan Show !?

[@Thailinc]

Yummy 😋

[@gumonthepants]

Tucker Carlson sent me.

[@randomthoughtstoday]

dont like this guys voice.

[@DevoShire]

Sounds like a great place for the Biden Library…

[@cag1763]

It must seem to the democrats only the healthy ones make it...that means good breeding stock for the future

[@DanielleAdamstranspride]

You need to update your video as many nations no longer force people to marry a gender we are not wanting to marry and we do not even have to be miserable with the opposite gender if we are gay.