article_snippet: González made a decision that would forever change CNN)Alexis González life -- to leave Omoa, an impoverished village in Honduras  -- with dreams of getting to the United States.
article_snippet: At the end of the trek -- about 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) across Mexico and Guatemala -- CNN)Alexis González saw hope, school, a job and the chance to send money home.
article_snippet: His mother even went to Corinto on the Honduras-Guatemala border to ask authorities if authorities had seen Gonzalez, His mother says.
article_snippet: González says CNN)Alexis González traveled by land through Honduras and Guatemala with a teenage cousin.  
article_snippet: him and his cousin had been traveling for a few days on the train and were excited at nearing the U.S.-Mexico border and crossing into the land of him and his cousin dreams.
article_snippet: González was eventually rescued by the Mexican Red Cross and taken to a hospital where CNN)Alexis González recovered for a month.
article_snippet: González stayed at a shelter for wounded migrants for another two months.