Because of his family, especially his hope for a better life for his children, Rene Flores, 39, has made the long journey to the United States each year to work. Ironically, it was due to those family concerns that this year he did not return to the United… Read More
Part 2 of a 4-part series A solitary church is located just over a knoll created by a decade of mudslides. The one-room, cinderblock building is a 30-minute walk from the Honduran village of Santa Lucia. Usually it’s quiet, but not tonight. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
No one seems to remember exactly who was the first person from Santa Lucia to travel to the United States to work in the forestry industry in Maine. But Dionisio Funez’s sister, Priscilla, notes that in the group who perished in the Sept. 12 accident that killed 14… Read More
Nearly three months ago, 14 foreign tree thinners died when the van in which they were speeding to work flipped off a logging bridge into the Allagash River deep in the north woods. Besides being the worst motor vehicle crash in Maine history, the event… Read More
Part 1 of a 4-part series The accident that killed 14 foreign workers Sept. 12 in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway also destroyed their impoverished Santa Lucian families’ economic lifelines. The deaths of seven of the men in this tiny community near the border with El… Read More
John’s Bridge A one-lane, 260-foot-long metal and wood logging bridge that spans the channel between Churchill and Eagle lakes in northwestern Maine. Rather than guardrails, a low metal curb runs along each side. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – While the exact death toll will likely never be known, it is estimated that 6,500 people died in Honduras as a result of hurricane Mitch in 1998. Perhaps more haunting is that four years later, nearly 8,000 Hondurans are still missing. Whole families, entire villages… Read More