Why families by the thousands are fleeing Honduras for the U.S. - PBS NewsHour
A devastating report about this problem.
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Marcia Biggs:
San Pedro Sula used to be the murder capital of the world, held hostage by gangs, the most prominent, MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang. But a crackdown led by the government of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, fueled by American dollars, has led to a much touted decrease in homicide rates, down over one-third since 2011.
Yet the people still live in fear.
But we keep hearing that the homicide rates are down, that crime is down, violence is down. Do you not believe that?
Yolanda Gonzalez Cerdeira:
No.
I think there are a lot of tricks there. Sometimes, a half-truth is more harmful than a lie. Oddly enough, the homicide rate started to fall when the counting methodology changed. Now only police can give that data. Before, the data was compared with other sources. Now it's just one source.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-families-by-the-thousand-are-fleeing-honduras-for-the-u-s
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I am really conflicted. I am thinking of many fleeing Hitler and finding the borders closed. And yet, can we really absorb all the residents of Central America fleeting for their lives?
Is there no way the rest of the world can help? Are there no brave men and women in Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador who would say: enough? Time to take back our country? Where are today's Fidel Castro or Che Guevara?
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