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Don bartletti
The Los Angeles Times
"Bound to el norte: Immigrant Stowaways on the Freight Trains of Mexico"  

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"bound to el norte" In the vast migration that is changing the US, a Honduran boy rides a freight through Mexico. Each year thousands of undocumented Central Americans stowaway for 2500 miles on the tops and sides of trains. Some are parents desperate to escape the slow death of poverty. Many are children in search of a parent who left them behind long ago. Success comes only to the brave and the lucky.
 
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