Next time you find yourself complaining that your journey into work was “a nightmare” because of a few signal failures, think about the poor souls on the “Train of Death” (also known as “The Beast”), which thousands of poor people ride through Mexico in the hope of realising their “American dream”. For many, the journey ends with robbery, rape or death, as a story in today’s El País points out. The headline translates roughly as: “Don’t sleep; whatever you do, don’t sleep.”
Here’s an earlier CNN video, with commentary in English, about the train:
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