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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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"a long day" Elio Trujillo Martinez, 13, guides a handmade wheelbarrow for tips in an outdoor market in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Independence comes at an early age in this impoverished country. Each year Honduras looses thousands of children who flee to the United States in search of the parents who left them behind.
 
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