Death Trains in Mexico

Mexico is blaming the U.S. for the Central Americans hopping trains to get up here. Apparently these trains are run by a Mexican wholly owned subsidiary of Kansas City Southern, a U.S. train company. Seems to me the Mexican gov't is sitting back and watching this happen.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/mexicans-...r-death-train/

At the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, a popular crossing point for Central Americans, the Border Patrol made more than 90,700 apprehensions in the six months ending in April, a 69 percent increase over last year, and an increasing number of the migrants are making claims for asylum in the United States....

The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, a veteran migrants’ rights advocate in Mexico, accused the authorities of human rights violations during the raid, including verbal and physical aggression against women and children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/wo...-ban.html?_r=1

Central American amputees, once migrants, seek help in Mexico
A group of men who lost limbs to La Bestia, the freight train migrants ride to the U.S., want Mexico to protect others.

TAPACHULA, Mexico — The last time Norman Varela made an unauthorized crossing into Mexico, he was headed to the United States, in search of a job, riding atop the infamous northbound freight train known as La Bestia — the Beast.

Mexican policemen robbed the Honduran of his savings en route, he said. Later, on the night of Oct. 29, 2005, a rumor spread that more bad men were coming. As Varela made his escape, he ducked under a freight car. It rolled over his right leg, severing it at the knee....



The grisly toll in limbs is only one of the prices that unlucky Central Americans pay on their migration through Mexico. Armed gangs rob, rape, kidnap and kill, as do some authorities along La Bestia's tracks. Thousands of migrants disappear each year. Some who resist their attackers are thrown from the moving train. Other common hazards include misjudging a leap onto the Beast, or falling off while asleep.

La Bestia, also known among migrants as "The Train of Death," is actually a series of freight trains that run on a network of rails extending north and south throughout Mexico.

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr...utees-20140405

Worthwhile reading @:

New WOLA report on Mexico's Southern Border
Mexico's Other Border: Security, Migration, and the Humanitarian Crisis at the line with Central America

http://www.wola.org/publications/mex...order#thetrain