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Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
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October 2013
On Sale: October 8, 2013
224 pages
ISBN: 1781681325
EAN: 9781781681329
Kindle: B00CCONUMC
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Non-Fiction
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped
between the remote desert towns of Altar,
Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest
got 120 released, many with broken ankles and
other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar
Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in
Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of
the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing
stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up
and down the migrant trail from Central America
and across the US border. More than a quarter of a
million Central Americans make this
increasingly dangerous journey each year, and
each year as many as 20,000 of them are
kidnapped.
Martínez writes in
powerful, unforgettable 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. Illustrated with stunning full-color
photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed
light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in
the age of the narcotraficantes.
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