Portfolio Category - LCEA 2013

Latin America is considered one of the world's most violent places. Every day in the streets of cities like San Pedro Sula, Guatemala, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador, and Mexico City, the murders, robberies and violence are every day more present. Ineffective internal politics of the area is unstable, drug trafficking into the U.S. is uncontrollable and unsafe neighborhoods Maras and Zetas control at the borders is the closest thing to a daily war. The report of the Organization of American States notes that in a country like Honduras violent death occurs every 74 minutes without war there. Already in 2011 was the most violent nation in the world, totaling 7,104 documented murders by police. In these places the use of youth and children to train as Sicarios is a regular job. They are seduced by the ease of earning money that gives them respect and fear. In the training process murderous youth from the poorest strata of society consumed becoming true harbingers of death. In a country without war where violent deaths occur every hour., Social portrait of Honduras is considered the world's most terrifying place. The rates of violence triggered after the coup in 2009 overthrew President Manuel Zelaya by Roberto Micheletti have put the country in a permanent state of despair for his crime. In 2008, 3,418 people died incredibly, as a count of the Honduran daily El Heraldo. The homicide rate per 100,000 population, which in 1999 was 42.1, now is 86, almost eight times what the WHO considers the epidemic. The world average is 8.8. Corruption, far surpassed that of any of its Latin neighbors is transforming a place of relative peace Caribbean in hostile territory.