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What It's Like to Fall Off La Bestia

NPR
Published December 18, 2015 at 1:40 PM CST

We meet a group of disabled migrants from Honduras who made the journey north a second time to raise awareness about the dangers of riding atop the freight train known as La Bestia (The Beast).

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