Answer: The correct answer is : The economic situation of the inhabitants of Las Anonas in Oaxaca, Mexico, was not good. The workers earned very little. Most of the people who live in Las Anonas are laborers, who earn thirty pesos a day, approximately three dollars. Enrique's mother travels to the United States to look for work and have a better life, but does not return, so Enrique decides to cross Mexico as a cop on the freight trains to go look for her.