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A review by prcizmadia
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez
5.0
‘The Beast’ uses the story of La Bestia, the freight trains that ferry migrants through Mexico, to tell the story of migration from Central America to the US border.
If you believe in a just world where we all have opportunity, and that good or bad things happen for a reason, and people are inherently good... read this book and disabuse yourself of the notion. Find yourself in awe of the struggle to reach the border and the implacable forces arrayed against the migrant. I’ve never read something so hard hitting and painful that I could not put down.
If you believe in a just world where we all have opportunity, and that good or bad things happen for a reason, and people are inherently good... read this book and disabuse yourself of the notion. Find yourself in awe of the struggle to reach the border and the implacable forces arrayed against the migrant. I’ve never read something so hard hitting and painful that I could not put down.