The beast : riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail / by Oscar Martínez ; translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington.
Martínez, Óscar (Óscar Enrique)
2013
JV7402 .M3713 2013 (Mapit)
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Title The beast : riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail / by Oscar Martínez ; translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington.
Author Martínez, Óscar (Óscar Enrique)
Uniform Title Migrantes que no importan. English
ISBN 9781781681329 (hardcover)
1781681325 (hardcover)
Published London : Verso, 2013.
Language English
Description xvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number JV7402 .M3713 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.9/069120972
Summary "One day a couple of years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote, dusty border towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. Over half of them were never heard from again. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar at the time of the abduction, and his story of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he tells after spending two years traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America to the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans alone make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and last year 18,000 of them were kidnapped. Martínez writes in beautiful, lyrical prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Here is the first book to illuminate this harsh mass migration in the age of the narcotraficantes"--Publisher description.
Note "First published as Los migrantes que no importan [copyrighted] Icaria Editorial 2010."
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Here they rape, there they kill: Chiapas
La bestia: Oaxaca and Veracruz
The invisible slaves: Chiapas
Kidnappings don't matter: Veracruz, Tabasco, Oaxaca
We are Los Zetas: Tabasco
Living among Coyotes: to the Rio Grande and back
You are not welcome in Tijuana: Baja California
The funnel effect: Baja California and Sonora
The narco demand: Arizona
cat and mouse with the border patrol: Arizona
Ghost town: Chihuahua
Juárez, forbidden city: Chihuahua
Dying in the Rio Grande: Tamaulipas.

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