Jose Corpas: The Train From Aragua

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Luckily, Miguel and his family survived the journey [from Venezuela, through the Darien Gap], but at great cost. Their oldest daughter, 14, is still angry at her parents and has difficulty sleeping through the night. “She wants to go back home,” Miguel told me. “She says we took her away from her friends, her life.” Though Miguel and his wife still live together, they were divorced along the trek. “Somewhere in Nicaragua,” he said.
When Miguel shared his experiences with me, I couldn’t help but ask: How bad was it back home that you would put yourself and your family in such danger?
“You’ll soon find out,” he told me.