The Whisper Game: A Young Migrant and Spent Bullet Cases

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Oct 2, 202632:02Society & Culture

In July 2024, then nineteen-year-old Nixon Azuaje-Pérez picked up spent bullet casings after a shooting outside his apartment in Aurora, Colorado. It was a decision that would thrust the Venezuelan migrant into th...

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