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The beast: riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail

by Martinez, Oscar.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Verso 2013ISBN: 9781781681329; SE00042034; 1781681325.Classification number: 305.9069 MARUniform titles: Migrantes que no importan English.Subject(s): Illegal aliens -- Mexico | Central Americans -- Mexico | Immigrants -- Mexico | Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | Central America -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspectsSubject: One day a couple of years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote, dustry border towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. Over half of them were never heard from again. Oscar Martinez, 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 travelling up and down the migrant trail from Central America to the US border.
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One day a couple of years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote, dustry border towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. Over half of them were never heard from again. Oscar Martinez, 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 travelling up and down the migrant trail from Central America to the US border.

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