Beast Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
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Biographical note
Óscar Martínez writes for ElFaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America. His first book, The Beast, was named one of the best books of the year by the Economist and the Financial Times. In 2008, Martínez won the Fernando Benítez National Journalism Prize in Mexico, and in 2009, he was awarded the Human Rights Prize at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University in El Salvador.A heartbreaking book about the world's most invisible people. A revelatory work of love and hair-raising courage.
- Alma Guillermoprieto, Latin America correspondent for the <em>New York Review of Books</em>, author of <em>Dancing with Cuba</em>,
To understand the dramatic realities faced by the migrants who flee northwards to find work in the United States, Óscar Martínez literally jumped trains and dodged killers. He deserves praise not only for his efforts, and for what he writes about, but because he writes so very well.
- Jon Lee Anderson, staff reporter for the <em>New Yorker</em>,
Óscar Martínez is a journalist of uncommon bravery and a writer of prodigious talent. <i>The Beast</i> is a powerful, necessary book, one of the finest pieces of journalism to emerge from Latin America in years.
- Daniel Alarcón, author of <em>At Night We Walk in Circles</em>,
Forget the rhetoric, the politics, and the propaganda. The Beast is the real story of the drug war.
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