Other Worlds

Other Worlds.
In 2016, while travelling in Mexico I saw many immigrants like the one represented in this image, walking or just waiting for the right moment to jump to La Bestia, a train that rides across Mexico to the US. Some immigrants die in the intent other get their arms or legs mutilated, some succeed. None of these risks matters to them coming from being extorted and threatened by the "maras", their houses burned out, their families killed in their countries of origin: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, even Nicaragua.

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