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“... who didn’t want to die of exposure had to hire what were called guides, polleros or coyotes.As Jason deLeón wrote in The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (2015), ‘prevention through deterrence’ enlisted the harsh natural landscape and its predatory animal population to kill ...”

“... independent. Choosing to sit on her bed when the light of the world was dimming was not an option. Jason Roberts describes something of the same behaviour in James Holman who, in 1810, suddenly went blind at the age of 25: Once hope of a cure is extinguished in the newly blind adult, there is typically a period of self-mourning, in which the individual ...”

“... Apollinaire. But the poem is also part of a Caribbean lineage that goes back to the Haitian Baron de Vastey, whose book The Colonial System Unveiled (1814) is sometimes described as the first work of anticolonial theory, and the Trinidadian linguist John Jacob Thomas, whose polemic Froudacity was published in 1889. Vastey and Thomas analysed the racist ...”

“... why were the firefighters not coming up with breathing equipment and helping them down? Why indeed.Jason Garcia, Jessica’s cousin, lived in a neighbouring block and when he saw the tower was on fire he called Ramiro, Jessica’s dad. ‘We have been evacuated,’ Ramiro said. ‘I’m here with Adriana and Melanie’ – Jessica’s mother and older sister ...”