The Grain Train Robbery of 1996

摘要

On May 30 1996, in a gritty outer ring settlement of Monterrey, Mexico, over four hundred men, women and children assaulted a grain train and carried its cargo off to their homes. Shouting 'We're hungry!', women hauled off the contraband in buckets and two-year-old children carried it gingerly across the tracks in plastic bags. At the end of the day, forty tons of corn had disappeared into the community of San Nicolas de la Garza. This was no isolated event. Within the past three weeks, hundreds of Mexican citizens robbed two grain trains in Torreon, another Mexican city, and further attempts were made on trains in Monterrey. For hungry people in Mexico, the new economic order is not working.