Who believes peasants in South America could pay enough to cartels to guarantee safe passage for baby Fernando to toddle up here from there?
I don't know that drug cartels would need to be involved.
Google La Bestia tren and check some of the articles and images there. The freight trains from the frontier points on Mexico's southern border are each carrying the population of a small town on the roof walkways and tops of cars. Most of them adolescents from adjoining Central American countries, many with backpacks carrying toddlers.
The photos will remind you of those you've seen of the National Railway of India.
What we've heard about Mexico's southern border being "impenetrable" is obviously bunk. And it's evident that the Mexican authorities aren't policing the mobs that are mooching a free ride from, say, Tenosique to Vera Cruz or Mexico City.
And once they arrive in the railroad yards in Vera Cruz or Mexico City, it's a matter of finding another ride north.
If we had half a brain we would boycott all things Mexico. Don’t buy anything with a Mexicon label on it don’t visit there! Don’t have anything to do with these bastards.