Crime booms as Central Americans fear police switched sides
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras -- In a city that's just earned the title of the most dangerous in the Americas, few people dare go to the police with complaints. Rather, they view police officers with fear, scorn and disgust. "Society has completely ...
The risks and rewards of helping Honduras
Virtually the entire American Airlines flight going to San Pedro Sula in Honduras was clad in color-coordinated t-shirts, each representing a group doing good in the Central American country. Medical missionaries from South Carolina. College ...
Value of U.S. playing in Central America
It was in one such game -- in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Oct. 10, 2009, where Los Catrachos had been undefeated in more than six years -- that the U.S. secured its berth for South Africa in the summer of 2010. That night, Conor Casey bulled ...
San Pedro Sula, Honduras is the world’s most violent place
San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was the world's most violent place in 2011, surpassing the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, according to a new statistical analysis by Mexico's Civic Council on Public Security and Criminal Justice, a non-profit group.
Honduras: home to the most violent city in the hemisphere?
Reports that San Pedro Sula, Honduras, has taken the place of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as the most violent city in the hemisphere are a result of shifts in trafficking patterns that are putting Central America at the heart of the drug trade.