The freight train that runs to the heart of Mexico’s ’Drugs War’ : Riding ’La Bestia’ to freedom or death - Americas - World

The freight train that runs to the heart of Mexico’s ’Drugs War’: Riding ’La Bestia’ to freedom or death
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Every day, as many as 1,500 migrants alight from the notorious freight train known as La Bestia (“The Beast”) as it terminates on the outskirts of Mexico City.

As if the journey was not dangerous enough, members of Mexico’s most powerful and violent criminal gangs lie in wait as the migrants – mainly Central Americans – then traverse the 20km route between the railway tracks and the shelter for undocumented migrants in Huehuetoca.