La Bestia - By Death Train to the USA

"La Bestia": the dangerous goods train that migrants jump on to get from the south of Mexico to the U.S. border.

Most of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras and cannot afford a bus ticket or a smuggler. Travelling by train is the fastest way for them to reach the USA, but also the most dangerous. Many people fall off the train, land on the tracks, are run over, mutilated and robbed or raped by criminal gangs. Nevertheless, people make their way to a hopefully better life in the USA.