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No cover — Oscar Martínez: The beast (2014, Verso)

275 pages

English language

Published May 21, 2014 by Verso.

ISBN:: 978-1-78168-297-5
OCLC Number:: 858126395

(1 review)

"One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped" --

2 editions

Rev. Dr. Sir Wayne Murillo III reviewed The beast by Oscar Martínez

Review of 'The beast' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

If you are American and listen to the same antiauthoritarian music that I do, you know that train hopping is a common theme. The romance of a gutter punk jumping a train to get a free ride to a new place is sung from Woody Guthrie to Pat the Bunny (Patrick Schneeweis). After reading The Beast by Óscar Martínez (@CronistaOscar), American train hopping shifts from the romance of Christopher McCandless into the harsh light of day where the romantic veneer peels away to illuminate the horrors within immigrants traveling to El Norte on La Bestia[A].

Óscar Martínez is a phenomenal journalist. To document the trips that immigrants take to the US border through Mexico, he made the trip many times while interviewing migrants, coyotes, police, priests, and members of the Los Zeta cartel. His literary journalism covers the horrors of rape, mutilation, kidnapping, exploitation, solidarity and hope on the migrant's …

If you are American and listen to the same antiauthoritarian music that I do, you know that train hopping is a common theme. The romance of a gutter punk jumping a train to get a free ride to a new place is sung from Woody Guthrie to Pat the Bunny (Patrick Schneeweis). After reading The Beast by Óscar Martínez (@CronistaOscar), American train hopping shifts from the romance of Christopher McCandless into the harsh light of day where the romantic veneer peels away to illuminate the horrors within immigrants traveling to El Norte on La Bestia[A].

Óscar Martínez is a phenomenal journalist. To document the trips that immigrants take to the US border through Mexico, he made the trip many times while interviewing migrants, coyotes, police, priests, and members of the Los Zeta cartel. His literary journalism covers the horrors of rape, mutilation, kidnapping, exploitation, solidarity and hope on the migrant's trail.

Photography of migrants on La Bestia: www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2017/dec/13/mexico-central-american-migrants-la-bestia-pictures

[A]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bestia

Subjects

Illegal aliens
Emigration and immigration
Central Americans
Immigrants
Social aspects

Places

Central America
Mexico