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Migration: The hard road through Mexico
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Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Central America enter Mexico every year hoping to reach the United States. It’s a dangerous journey fueled only by the desperate dream of a better life.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Central America enter Mexico every year hoping to
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reach the United States.
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It's a dangerous journey fueled only by the desperate dream of a better life.
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Next to the railroad tracks, 200 kilometers deep inside Mexico, a group of young Hondurans
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wait.
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They are waiting to board La Bestia, the beast as they call the freight train that travels
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north toward the border with the United States.
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Penniless and tired, many have been traveling for weeks.
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Why?
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Because it's a dream of us Hondurans to reach the United States.
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These migrants are just a few of the more than 200,000 from every country in Central
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America who make the journey north by entering illegally into Mexico.
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This is a story about the dangers that migrants here, like millions of others around the world,
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face as they try to cross borders to make a better life for themselves and their families.
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Here in Mexico alone, they face 4,000 kilometers of checkpoints, patrols, criminals, and other
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dangers that await them.
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All this before they ever reach their final destination.
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Careful, guys.
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In avoiding the police, you might fall into the hands of unscrupulous people, especially
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you women, but men too.
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We've had men who have been cut up, men who have been kidnapped.
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Maria Esther Rosales runs a safe house for migrants near Mexico's southern border.
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The violations to their human rights have increased tremendously.
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What we try to do here is to help them travel through Mexico in a dignified way.
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Protecting migrants as they travel is extremely difficult.
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These poor people are exposed to anyone robbing them, and if they try to resist, they get
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beat up.
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We've seen groups traveling with young women where they capture them all and rape the women.
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They hold the men with machetes to their necks while they rape the women in front
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of them.
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While most of the migrants are men, women like Sandra, a 20-year-old mother of three
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from Honduras, are the most vulnerable.
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She left her three children at home with her mother nearly a month ago and set out to the
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United States to make money for an operation for her badly burned baby daughter.
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But little she had was taken from her.
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I was robbed.
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I was assaulted, and they took all my documents.
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Sandra knows that her passage is anything but easy.
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This isn't the first time that she has tried to reach the U.S. border.
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I got as far as a place they call Pisanco.
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There the immigration got me, and they deported me all the way back.
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Because I have this dream to help my three daughters, here I am, risking my life all
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over again.
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At dusk, Sandra will join with other young migrants to cross into Mexico.
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But there are many young women who end up forever at Mexico's doorstep, stuck in Guatemalan
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villages along the coast, awaiting passage from traffickers or in dusty border towns
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filled with crime and prostitution.
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This Salvadoran woman searches frantically for her 17-year-old daughter.
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It's been eight days that they've kidnapped her, that they keep her from communicating
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with me.
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She's a minor, and they can put her to work in a bar, and they can prostitute her.
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So right now is the time to do something for her.
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Young girls fall easily into the trap.
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16-year-old Lorena is now working as a prostitute in a border town bar.
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The customers come here.
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They are Mexicans, Guatemalans.
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One time, I was hit in my face, and they rushed my head against the wall three times.
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Lorena migrated here from the highlands of Guatemala.
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Since her father died recently, she uses the $200 a month she earns as a sex worker to
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support her mother and six siblings, while also keeping in school.
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Because she's underage and working in a bar, she spends half of her time in hiding.
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Because I'm still a minor, I keep to the back mostly.
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I don't go out much.
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While Lorena is stuck working in this border town bar, Sandra is determined to get on the
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road toward her dream.
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Sandra plans to cross the river where she was to hop on the freight train La Bestia
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and head north.
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But fate has played a cruel joke on her.
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The train no longer runs on these tracks because of last season's hurricanes.
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It's now a two-week walk away, past a dozen of these checkpoints.
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Undaunted, Sandra says she will do whatever it takes to get to where La Bestia does run.
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Train, I tell you, it's dangerous.
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It frightens me.
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When I have to catch it, I pray to all the saints in the sky, and I ask God to please
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help me.
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And so for now, Sandra will join so many others who, whether on foot, by boat, or by train,
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continue on their dangerous journey with little more than their faith in a better life.
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- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- United Nations (Naciones Unidas)
- Subido por:
- EducaMadrid
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
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- Fecha:
- 26 de junio de 2007 - 15:59
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- 21st Century Television Series
- Duración:
- 06′ 43″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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- 38.71 MBytes
