The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail - Couverture souple

Martínez, Óscar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781682976 ISBN 13 : 9781781682975

Editeur : Verso Books, 2014

Synopsis

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Oscar Martinez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped. Martinez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, 'The Beast' is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the 'narcotraficantes'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Oscar Martinez writes for ElFaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America. The original edition of his book 'Los migrantes que no importan' was published in 2010 by Icaria and El Faro, with a second edition by Mexico's sur+ Ediciones in 2012. Martinez is currently writing chronicles and articles for El Faro's project, Sala Negra, investigating gang violence in Latin America. In 2008, Martinez won the Fernando Benítez National Journalism Prize in Mexico, and in 2009, he was awarded the Human Rights Prize at the Jose Simeón Canas Central American University in El Salvador.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781682976
• ISBN 13: 9781781682975
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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