Photos from the LA Times
All of the photographs that appear here are by photographer Don Bartletti
and appeared in conjunction with the series entitled "Enrique's Journey" copyright
2002 by the Los Angeles Times, and are reprinted here by permission of the
Los Angeles Times.
Central
American migrants headed for the United States ride in railroad cars through
southern Mexico.
Migrants flatten themselves to avoid being hit by tree branches as their freight train rolls through Chiapas in southern Mexico. Enrique learned
several lessons about the state known to immigrants as "the beast." Among them: Trust no one in authority, and never ride alone.
One migrant watches as another leaps from freight car to freight car during a train's brief stop in Mapastepec.
Enrique washes a car in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He needed to earn one hundred pesos to call Honduras to get his mother's phone number, which he had lost during a beating by train bandits.
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