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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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"child addict" Richard Alberto Funez waves a toy pistol and acts like a tough guy to the amusement of his buddy Joel Sanchez. In Richard's other hand is contact cement in a soda can. Both 10-year-olds are drug addicted orphans roaming Tegucigalpa, Honduras to scavenge food and beg for money. Local outreach volunteers say many street urchins were left behind by a parent who went to the US
 
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