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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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"perils overhead" Clinging atop a speeding freight train, Denis Evan Contrarez, 12 (r) and Santo Antonio Gamay, 25, duck beneath tree branches ripping over their bodies. Destined for the US, The undocumented Honduran stowaways call the migratory route through Mexico, "The Beast", for its merciless and life-threatening hazards.
 
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