The beast
Subtitle: riding the rails and dodging narcos on the migrant trail
By: Óscar Martínez ; translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington ; introduction by Francisco Goldman ; with a new afterword
Contributors: Goldman, Francisco, writer of introduction
Edition: Paperback edition
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781781682975
Subjects: Illegal aliens; Emigration and immigration; Central Americans; Immigrants; Social aspects
Work titles: Migrantes que no importan
Description: "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. Óscar Martínez, 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" --
Notes: "First published as Los migrantes que no importan, © Icaria Editorial 2010."