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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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"maimed by the beast" Carlos Roberto Diaz Osorto, 17, of Honduras with his parents in a Chiapas, Mexico hospital. Days ago, Carlos lost his grip and slipped beneath the wheels of a tank car. At the rate of nearly one every other day, the Red Cross estimates, U.S.-bound Central Americans who ride freight trains lose arms, legs, hands or feet. Migrants call the Chiapas rail line, "The Beast".
 
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