Why the World's Murder Capital Is So Messed Up

[longknife]

Drug trafficking, geography make Honduras the most dangerous country on Earth
By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff, Posted Jun 14, 2013

(Newser) – Honduras has officially taken the crown as the world's most violence-riddled country, with an average of 20 people killed a day in a country the size of Tennessee, reports NPR, which took a trip there to get a look at what's causing all this killing. As in many other places in Latin America, much of the problem has to do with drug gangs, which have so thoroughly infiltrated law enforcement that even the country's police chief has been linked to extrajudicial killings.

Another story we hear little or nothing about in the US media. More @ Why the World's Murder Capital Is So Messed Up - Drug trafficking, geography make Honduras the most dangerous country on Earth

 

[ScienceRocks]

The government should BAN human trafficking and work to get control of their fucking country.

 

[longknife]

Sadly, this is a country caught in the backwater of the world. They've never really had industry and whatever resources they do have aren't being utilized.