Harrowing images of police battling gang violence in crime-stricken Hondurass

[Remote]

According to this, New Orleans had a 53.2 per 100,000 murder rate in 2012.

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-New-Orleans-Louisiana.html

And that's about half of what's going on in Honduras as a country.

Since 1965, at its very height, NYC had a murder rate of 14.5 in 1990. It's not even close to Honduras.
Source: http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm

In 1991, Washington DC had a murder rate of 80.6.

 

[karim]

the violence in central america is an aftermath of the horribly brutal civil wars they had there. basically, the state sponsored death squats who murdered left wing activists, guerilleros and indigenous people. when these wars were over, the chicken came home to roost, because the populations was used to violence and human life had become cheap. in addition, drug money had been used to finance these wars, and the death squads had to go and find something else to do, so many of them went into the drug trade full time. the wars also displaced a lot of poor people from the countryside, wo went to the bigger cities without any real source of income. these people were taught how to form gangs by refugees deported from the us, who adopted gangbanging after they fled to california during the civil wars. all of this created a mix that lead to the situation right now. as a sidenote, the zetas in mexico were an elite squad that got trained by a guatemalan elite squad. the style of communicating through violence they are using was also employed during the civil wars in central america, so you can imagine what an impact this made on the population affected by it.

 

[Maschine_Man]

It can't be a coincidence that these places are all very hot climates.
I swear it's the heat that makes ppl go crazy more than normal. Lol

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

im sure you wont be touched, tourists rarely get touched
hell jamaica is on that list, and as a tourist you wouldnt even know it

Yeah I'm not really worried. I'll be with my business school. But it's still crazy to know the violence surrounding all the safe areas we'll be going to.

 

[MikelArteta]

Yeah I'm not really worried. I'll be with my business school. But it's still crazy to know the violence surrounding all the safe areas we'll be going to.

dont give the to any broads

 

[Kublai Khan]

I guess the cause is US interference back in the day. I don't know much about Honduras.

 

[William Heavy]

the zetas in mexico were an elite squad that got trained by a guatemalan elite squad. the style of communicating through violence they are using was also employed during the civil wars in central america, so you can imagine what an impact this made on the population affected by it.

A lot of these fine gentleman were trained in the good ol' us of a in Georgia. I think the original Z's were trained in the states, but when they needed more soldiers and training for new recruits, they sought the guatamalans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_crisis

 

[Malta]

East Palo Alto had a similar average in 1992

And in 1992, Cities with populations in the millions in Latin America were hitting nearly 400 per 100,000. A city like East Palo Alto of 24,000 with 42 murders is going to have a high rate, I'm not necessarily going to feel unsafe going there, where as a city of 430,000 with 1,500 murders will have me like

You simply cannot compare the violence in the US to the violence in Latin America, Honduras as a country of 8 million has a murder rate higher than the worst cities in the US.