Train to El Norte - Here Comes the Devil.Rudy Gonzales Lopez, who says he is 14, from Huixtla, Mexico, right, looks for the oncoming engine while waiting to hop the freight train north to the United States. He is heading there by himself hoping to work. He hasn't told his family that he's going. A half an hour before, migration picked up at least five people and he ran to evade them. Migrants from all over Central America waited in the shadows of the town of Arriaga, in the state of Chiapas,...
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Train to El Norte - Here Comes the Devil.Rudy Gonzales Lopez, who says he is 14, from Huixtla, Mexico, right, looks for the oncoming engine while waiting to hop the freight train north to the United States. He is heading there by himself hoping to work. He hasn't told his family that he's going. A half an hour before, migration picked up at least five people and he ran to evade them. Migrants from all over Central America waited in the shadows of the town of Arriaga, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico on Thursday June 29, 2006 while waiting to hop the freight trains that run north. Poor migrants who don't have money to hire a coyote will often ride the train where they face dangers ranging from theft and rape to mutilation or death if they fall from the train.
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