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...water. Some lay unconscious in the stifling heat while horses munched hay a few feet away. The cops were not completely shocked: Avianeda and Andrade are reputed people smugglers. Police say the two recently gained trafficking control over a large swath of Mexico's southern isthmus--an unavoidable corridor in the perilous odyssey from Central America to the U.S. that hundreds of thousands of desperately poor migrants make each year...
Many Central American migrants seek out groups like the Uxpanapa to get a measure of protection inside what they call "the corridor of death," the forbidding territory just north of the Mexico-Guatemala border. There, a vicious army of Central American gangbangers called the Mara Salvatrucha are known for assaulting, robbing and raping passing migrants. From there, Uxpanapa clients are often loaded onto freight trains for a two-day journey to Veracruz, Mexico. Hundreds of migrants can be pressed into empty cargo cars, especially when railroad security are paid to look the other way. Nearer the U.S. border, they...
...backpack he was carrying. Though he had a form declaring the money—which Okhotin has said was charitable collections intended for destitute Christians in his birth country—Okhotin walked down the airport’s green “nothing to declare” corridor. Okhotin’s lawyer argued at his trial last week that he had made an innocent mistake...
Andrei Sergeevich Demakin, the customs agent who first stopped Okhotin as he walked through the airport’s green corridor, recalled Okhotin evading his question about whether he had any money besides the ten dollars he first revealed when asked how much money he was carrying...
Ionov emphasized in his testimony that he believed Okhotin was deliberately deceptive in carrying the $48,000 through the green corridor...