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  • 26 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  A man in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on the Rio Suchiate, which is the border between Mexico and Guatemala, shaves while he waits to enter Mexico illegally on their way to the US. They plan to catch a freight train in Tapachula to ride north to Mexico City. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on the Rio Suchiate, which is the border between Mexico and Guatemala, wait to enter Mexico illegally on their way to the US. They plan to catch a freight train in Tapachula to ride north to Mexico City. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Immigrants from Guatemala are returned to the Guatemalan side of the Mexico - Guatemala border near Tapachula, Mexico. They were caught trying to sneak into Mexico to get to the United States. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: People from Guatemala ride on rafts across the Rio Suchiate towards the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Mexican soldiers search people from Guatemala who crossed the Rio Suchiate illegally to enter Mexico near Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People from Guatemala ride on rafts across the Rio Suchiate towards the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People from Guatemala ride on rafts across the Rio Suchiate towards the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People from Guatemala ride on rafts across the Rio Suchiate towards the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: People from Guatemala ride on rafts across the Rio Suchiate towards the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004 --  TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: People from Guatemala pay the rafters who brought them across the Rio Suchiate to the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People from Guatemala ride on rafts across the Rio Suchiate towards the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A raft operator (balsero) brings people from Guatemala to Mexico near Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  A raft operator (balsero) in Hidalgo, Mexico, about 20 miles from Tapachula, loads his raft with corn flakes he is smuggling to Guatemala. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People from Guatemala ride on rafts across the Rio Suchiate towards the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Mexican soldiers search people from Guatemala who crossed the Rio Suchiate illegally to enter Mexico near Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Mexican soldiers search people from Guatemala who crossed the Rio Suchiate illegally to enter Mexico near Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: People from Guatemala ride on rafts across the Rio Suchiate towards the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People in the Mexican immigration department's detention center in Tapachula, Mexico, wait to be repatriated to their countries of origin. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People in the Mexican immigration department's detention center in Tapachula, Mexico, wait to be repatriated to their countries of origin. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Illegal immigrants from Central America in Mexico try to hop freight trains north to the interior of Mexico on their way to the United States. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People from Central America wait in the train yards in the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula, hoping to hop the freight trains north on their way to the US. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  A woman pays a rafter (balsero) who brought her across the Rio Suchiate to Hidalgo, Mexico, about 20 miles from Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People in the Mexican immigration department's detention center in Tapachula, Mexico, wait to be repatriated to their countries of origin. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People in the Mexican immigration department's detention center in Tapachula, Mexico, wait to be repatriated to their countries of origin. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004 --  TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Illegal immigrants from Central America in Mexico try to hop freight trains north to the interior of Mexico on their way to the United States. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004 --  TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Illegal immigrants from Central America in Mexico try to hop freight trains north to the interior of Mexico on their way to the United States. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Illegal immigrants from Central America in Mexico try to hop freight trains north to the interior of Mexico on their way to the United States. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Illegal immigrants from Central America in Mexico try to hop freight trains north to the interior of Mexico on their way to the United States. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  A man crippled while he tried to hop a freight train to get to the US rests in a shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JULY 2004   -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:   A man crippled while he tried to hop a freight train to get to the US rests in a shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 25 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  A couple for Honduras waits in the train yards in the Mexican town of Tapachula, hoping to hop the freight trains north on their way to the US. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A man crippled while he tried to hop a freight train to get to the US rests in a shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Raft operators (balseros) in Hidalgo, Mexico, near Tapachula, on the Rio Suchiate, wait for customers under a mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 28 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People in the Mexican immigration department's detention center in Tapachula, Mexico, wait to be repatriated to their countries of origin. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004 --  TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Illegal immigrants from Central America in Mexico try to hop freight trains north to the interior of Mexico on their way to the United States. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Illegal immigrants from Central America in Mexico try to hop freight trains north to the interior of Mexico on their way to the United States. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 JULY 2004  -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:   A man crippled while he tried to hop a freight train to get to the US rests in a shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 25 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  A couple for Honduras waits in the train yards in the Mexican town of Tapachula, hoping to hop the freight trains north on their way to the US. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  Border crossers from Central America are searched by a Mexican Grupo Beto officer in the train yards in the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula, hoping to hop the freight trains north on their way to the US. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 07 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO:  People from Central America wait in the train yards in the Mexican town of Hidalgo, near Tapachula, hoping to hop the freight trains north on their way to the US. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Garbage pickers, wait for a garbage truck from Tapachula to unload in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Garbage pickers, wait for a garbage truck from Tapachula to unload in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Carlos Lopez Perez, 12, works in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Carlos Lopez Perez, 12, works in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Children work in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A woman walks through the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, while a garbage truck drives in. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A woman walks through the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, while a garbage truck drives in. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A woman and her child walk through the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A child walks through the garbage in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Garbage pickers, wait for a garbage truck from Tapachula to unload in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Carlos Lopez Perez, 12, center right, and other garbage pickers, wait for a garbage truck from Tapachula to unload in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A teenager walks through the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Daniel Ramirez Lopez, a garbage buyer, waits for garbage pickers to bring him things they found in the garbage in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A woman and her child watch a family eat lunch in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Carlos Lopez Perez, 12, right, and an adult pick through the garbage in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Carlos Lopez Perez, 12, finishes a bottle of nearly empty soda he found while working in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Carlos Lopez Perez, 12, right, and an adult pick through the garbage in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: People walk to work through a flock of vultures in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A woman and her child walk through the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: People pick through the garbage in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Children work in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Children work in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Carlos Lopez Perez, 12, center right, and other garbage pickers, wait for a garbage truck from Tapachula to unload in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A woman and her child watch a family eat lunch in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 NOVEMBER 2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Carlos Lopez Perez, 12, right, and an adult pick through the garbage in the municipal garbage dump in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. About 130 people, the poorest of the poor in Tapachula, work in the dump picking through the garbage hoping to find tidbits they can use or sell to brokers who sit on the edge of the dump and resell the garbage. Most of the dump workers are Guatemalan migrants who crossed the border hoping, at one time, to get to the United States. Now they have settled for an existence on the very edge of Mexican society. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, take a break during the harvest. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 NOVEMBER  2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS MEXICO: Workers scoop up dried coffee beans on the sidewalk in front of a "coyote's" storefront in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Coyotes are the middlemen in small scale Mexican coffee farming. They buy coffee from small farm owners and resell it to the companies that ultimately roast, grind and package it. Most of the coyotes deal in lower grade coffees, high grade coffee is sold on a contract basis by farmers and plantation owners directly to roasters. World coffee prices have been depressed for years by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. Many of the plantations in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to closed because of the crisis. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 NOVEMBER  2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS MEXICO: Workers scoop up dried coffee beans on the sidewalk in front of a "coyote's" storefront in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Coyotes are the middlemen in small scale Mexican coffee farming. They buy coffee from small farm owners and resell it to the companies that ultimately roast, grind and package it. Most of the coyotes deal in lower grade coffees, high grade coffee is sold on a contract basis by farmers and plantation owners directly to roasters. World coffee prices have been depressed for years by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. Many of the plantations in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to closed because of the crisis. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, take their lunch break. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, take their lunch break. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 NOVEMBER  2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS MEXICO: A worker spreads coffee beans out to dry on the sidewalk in front of a "coyote's" storefront in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Coyotes are the middlemen in small scale Mexican coffee farming. They buy coffee from small farm owners and resell it to the companies that ultimately roast, grind and package it. Most of the coyotes deal in lower grade coffees, high grade coffee is sold on a contract basis by farmers and plantation owners directly to roasters. World coffee prices have been depressed for years by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. Many of the plantations in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to closed because of the crisis. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, carry bags of harvested coffee to a waiting truck. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 24 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, load a truck with harvested coffee. The plantation, like many in the area, relies on undocumented workers from Guatemala. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 24 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, load a truck. The plantation, like many in the area, relies on undocumented workers from Guatemala. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 24 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico. The plantation, like many in the area, relies on undocumented workers from Guatemala. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 24 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, sort coffee beans in the plantation warehouse. The plantation, like many in the area, relies on undocumented workers from Guatemala. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 11 NOVEMBER  2004 - TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS MEXICO: A worker spreads coffee beans out to dry on the sidewalk in front of a "coyote's" storefront in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. Coyotes are the middlemen in small scale Mexican coffee farming. They buy coffee from small farm owners and resell it to the companies that ultimately roast, grind and package it. Most of the coyotes deal in lower grade coffees, high grade coffee is sold on a contract basis by farmers and plantation owners directly to roasters. World coffee prices have been depressed for years by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. Many of the plantations in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to closed because of the crisis. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, process and store coffee in the plantation warehouse. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 24 OCTOBER 2003 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, load a truck with harvested coffee. The plantation, like many in the area, relies on undocumented workers from Guatemala. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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