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

"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 af...

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Main Author:	Martínez, Óscar (Óscar Enrique) (Author)
Other Authors:	Ugaz, Daniela Maria (Translator), Goldman, Francisco (Writer of introduction)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	London ; New York : Verso, 2014.
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Subjects:	Illegal immigration > Mexico. Central Americans > Mexico. Immigrants > Mexico. Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Central America > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Central Americans. Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Noncitizens. Immigrants. Central America. Mexico. Illegal immigration.
Summary:	"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"--Publisher's website.