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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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"Misery's company" Buzzards and children compete for scraps at the Tegucigalpa landfill. Juan Flores, 15 and another child scavenge for anything to eat or sell. Northbound freight trains through Mexico are crowded with Hondurans fleeing poverty in search of work or relatives in the US
 
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