Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.He was five years old when his mother left him. Now he is almost another person.Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars."Children from Central America have been making that journey, often without their parents, for two decades.
Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”These children are facing threats similar to the forceful conscription of child soldiers by warlords in Sudan or during the civil war in Bosnia. Being forced to sell drugs by narcos is no different from being forced into military service.Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.The MS gangsters decide to retaliate and throw the gangster off the train. Enrique refuses to participate, creating a rift. "If you are MS, you have to kill 18th Streeters. And if you are 18th Street, you must kill MS. I wasn't like that," Enrique says.After the fight with his friends, halfway through Chiapas, the gang members stop riding with Enrique. That night, without their protection, the six men beat him on top of the train.
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