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La Bestia - Erick Ruiz Arellano

from Sonic Encounters with Borders by Walking Festival of Sound

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“La Bestia” (The Beast) or “Tren de la Muerte” (Death’s Train) is how people in Mexico call the train that travels from the southern border with Guatemala to the northern border with the United States, this train not only transports goods and fuel, but hundreds of Central American migrants on their way to find the American dream. Every year between 450 to 500 thousand migrants travel illegally on “La Bestia”, risking their life and sometimes their families too. This trip is very dangerous one, jumping on a moving train (about 10 to 15 trains for the whole trip) and balance yourself on the top of it for about 1,500 miles of journey needs a lot of survival skills. Migrants are not just an easy target for police and migration officers who extort them on their way, but the drug cartels that rule all over Mexico are kidnaping them and asking their relatives in the United States for money. Some migrants are just looking for a better life condition for their families, but others are running from the wave of intense violence that ruins everywhere in Central America.

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from Sonic Encounters with Borders, released September 6, 2021

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