coming up on the whole story. just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. maybe you die here. good evening. welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. we re bringing you the best story telling from all over the world. one whole story, one whole hour every sunday at 8 p.m. tonight we take you on a dangerous journey through the darian gap. it s a 66 mile stretch jungle between colombia and panama for migrants hoping to get to the u.s. have to get through the darian gach first. that means trekking through rivers, mud, up steep mountain sides. along the way they face exhaustion, disease, drowning, the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted or killed. so far this year five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year. a record number of them are children. to see what they face, cnn be s anything peyton walsh walked the entire route. some things are graphic and hard to watch. we want you to see the reality of
coming up on the whole story. this is just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. [ speaking non-english ] good evening, welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. starting tonight we are bringing you the best of cnn s storytelling from our reporters and anchors all over the world. it s one whole story, one whole hour every sunday at 8:00 p.m. tonight, we take you on a dangerous and difficult journey through the darien 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 u.s. 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 as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year, and a record number of them
whatever simple pause from pain they had hoped for, they are not going to get it. the same problems somehow emerge on the water. too many passengers to maximize profit weighs the boat down to the riverbed in the low waters of dry season. they can only move when some of them get out. they barely notice the human skull sat on a log here. a pregnant woman, belle, gets a ride with us. her son also does what he can to help us keep afloat. panama s government isn t even using a spoon to try and lessen the flow of humanity to here, they just whisk them on through, increasingly overwhelmed by the numbers. we dock in the first reception point in panama. they are then moved to their next stop, the camps. the panamanian authorities were
profit weighs the boat down in the low waters of dry season. they can only move when some get out. they barely notice the human skull sat on a log here. a pregnant woman gets a ride with us. her son also does what he can to help us keep afloat. panama s government isn t even using a spoon to try and lessen the flow of humanity to here. they just whisk them through, increasingly overwhelmed by the numbers. we dock in the first reception point in panama. they are then moved to the next stop, the camps. the panamanian authorities were keen to show us two facilities but declined to be interviewed for the report. the first was this. clean, new, with plumbing and power. but then they also took us here, to the gruesome limbo.