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The Coyote's Bicycle

The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire

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The Coyote's Bicycle

By: Kimball Taylor
Narrated by: Thom Rivera
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For listeners of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those who would cross.

It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers - coyotes - and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished.

Taylor follows the trail of the border bikes through some of society’s most powerful institutions, and, with the help of an unlikely source, he reconstructs the rise of one of Tijuana’s most innovative coyotes. Touching on immigration and globalization, as well as the history of the US/Mexico border, The Coyote’s Bicycle is at once an immersive investigation of an outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.

©2016 Kimball Taylor (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthropology Emigration & Immigration Engineering Mexico Organized Crime Politics & Government Social Classes & Economic Disparity State & Local United States
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follow that bike

ok so the story jumps around a bit, but it was enjoyable to see how writer linked a simple bike to so many people and the income it generated to the smugglers/ scrap guys/ studio etc

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