Chiapas, captive territory

El Pais

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Chiapas, captive territory

Members of a Venezuelan family — en route to the Mexican city of Tapachula — are locked in a rooster cage, awaiting their turn to leave. An old man, frozen from the cold, remembers his escape from his hometown near the border with Guatemala, under the threat of organized crime. A group of sharecroppers, including both teenagers and elderly people, are armed with worn-out hunting rifles and late-model machine guns: they cook over embers, while gu…