Until now, helicopters have been the only aircraft able to bring food and supplies to the more than 100,000 refugees living in the remote border town. C-130s can carry nearly 10 times the load of a single helicopter and can fly under more severe conditions. No one seems to know why today's test flight never came off. We waited five hours. We don't know what happened.
American music plays in the background.
There's another place not far away where things couldn't be more different. This is a bar with a forgettable name and a handful of tables that look out on a dusty side street. The men wear jogging suits or broken-in jeans and some of them walk with a limp, as if recovering from wounds. The customers turn to look when strangers walk in. The man at the bar doesn't seem to know his job.