Impossible Roads

Mexico, A Train to Eldorado (1x2)

Air date: Dec 14, 2007

The trip begins in the Guatemalan village of Tecum Uman, separated from Mexico by the Suchiate River. Some 350,000 illegal immigrants attempt to cross the river each year. A real ordeal begins for them, at the end of which the luckiest will perhaps succeed in entering the United States. The price can reach $10,000. Fear is there, everywhere, omnipresent: fear of the authorities, of the corrupt police, of the gangs who control access to the trains. Rape, assault and forcible confinement are commonplace.