Week of May 9, 2009
Begging in Mexico
Five days a week Jorge Gonzales boards a bus and heads to Minatitlan to beg. Photo by Conrad Fox.
Description
Mexico is slowly getting back to normal after the swine flu epidemic shut down schools, shops and businesses. The people worst hit by the closures were the ones who make their living on the street: vendors and beggars.
Not that their lives were easy before. Reporter Conrad Fox spends a day with Jorge Gonzales.
