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Adan Lara Vega: We were told Mexican Winnebago would be air conditioned
 [Guardian] Adan Lara Vega said he was told the $5,500 he was being charged to be smuggled into the United States would include an air-conditioned truck ride.Instead, the 27-year-old Mexican laborer climbed with his friends into a pitch-black, metal tractor-trailer compartment that lacked ventilation ‐ a deadly oven that would claim 10 lives. "After an hour I heard crying ‐ people crying and asking for water. I, too, was sweating and people were despairing," Lara Vega told the Associated Press in an exclusive interview Monday from his bed in a San Antonio hospital. "That’s when I lost consciousness." By the time he regained it Sunday, he was in the hospital. He told the AP that it all started when he climbed aboard the tractor-trailer in the border city of Laredo, Texas, with six friends from the state of Aguascalientes after the group waited nearly two weeks in a safe house. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-25 |
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