May 14, 2003
Chiapas border crossing

From the "Arizona Republic" newspaper.

This story covers the border with Guatemala at the Suchiate River, but the Usumacinta also had boatfuls of immigrants, mojados as they call them, when we traveled on it in March. On one beach we picked up hundreds of identical styrofoam "clamshells", takeout lunch trash that the coyotes gave their customers for the trip across and downriver. Someone told us that 300 people a week made the trip on that stretch of the Usumacinta.

Southern Mexico's trail of tears

Posted by Dave at May 14, 2003 01:27 PM