BOP 2007 > Still Photography Winners > General News

1st
Oded Balilty, Associated Press
2nd
Andrew Craft, The Fayetteville Observer
3rd
Jane Tyska, The Daily Review/Bang Newspapers
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Gary Coronado, The Palm Beach Post
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Guy Wathen, Tribune-Review
Honorable Mention

Desperate economic conditions are driving record numbers of Central Americans to cross Mexico hoping to get to the U.S. Many ride “The Beast” - the train, and risk mutilation and amputation. Some make it, but many others are caught and deported, or return home maimed … or dead. Central American migrants ride the train headed northwest Sept. 6, 2006 from Gregório Méndez, Tabasco, Mexico.

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