Isabel Alvarado, who sells socks in the Fifth Street Market in Tegucigalpa, sees the dangerous and illegal journey north as her only escape route from the hurricane's devastation.
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The idea of migrating came at the end of November when I was left without a job, and began selling socks and other clothes in this market. I have a high school education, far more than what most women in this country can say. And I am an independent woman. I have never been pregnant. It occurred to me that, with the economic situation the way it is here, the only way to survive was to leave.