Beast Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

Name: Beast Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
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ISBN: 9781781682975

ISBN-10: 1781682976

ISBN-13: 9781781682975

Edition: 2014

Authors: Oscar Martinez, Francisco Goldman, Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington

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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 arekidnapped.Martínez writes in…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 6/3/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.80" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Francisco Goldman, the author of five novels, one book of nonfiction, won the Prix Femina for his latest, Say Her Name.

JOHN WASHINGTON (1838-1918), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, worked as a house and sign painter in Washington, D.C., after his escape. He retired to Cohasset, Massachusetts.