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Migrants Risk It All On The Treacherous Darién Gap

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Each year, nearly half a million migrants cross the perilous stretch of jungle between South and Central America. Many face snakes, flash floods, sweltering heat, sexual violence, and death. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Caitlin Dickerson talks to Tonya Mosley about what she saw and the migrants she followed for the September Atlantic cover story.

John Powers reviews the Apple TV+ series Women in Blue, about women cops in '70s Mexico City.

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