Anti-drug agents on Saturday broke up an alleged gang of synthetic drug producers and seized $100 million in assets, a Honduras government spokesman said, Reuters reported. Anti-drug trafficking ...
Yessenia* rounded the corner one afternoon in March when she saw a group of four young men beating another. They saw her too. “It’s the teacher!” she remembers one yelling before they scattered. The ...
The clatter of bullets piercing the schools roof sent pupils running for safety. Four of them and their teacher were wounded. The February 27 attack on the Maximiliano Sagastume school in a northern ...
Kevin Portillo, 17, works out with a homemade barbell in a space that will eventually be a gym. The space was formerly a casa loca or madhouse, one of many criminal lairs in Honduras. In this part of ...
For Santiago Ávila, the fight against the powerful street gangs that terrorize communities throughout his native Honduras is deeply personal. He was 19 when his 16-year-old brother Mauricio was ...
An MS-13 leader believed to have overseen a kill squad for the bloodthirsty gang — and who is linked to the killing of the son of the former president of Honduras — was arrested in Nebraska on Monday, ...
Three times, Mariana* stood up to the violent gangs that took over her once-idyllic hometown in Honduras. “The first time, they laughed with scorn,” she said. “The second time, they threatened to kill ...