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San Pedro Sula lays claim to a dubious title -- the world's highest murder rate. The impoverished Honduran city's roughly one million residents were slaughtered by drug gangs at a rate of 187 per ...
Crime is not spread around all the country. In 2015, Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba suffered more than 40% of the homicides in the country. The main reason for the concentrated violence is that these are the cities where the majority of Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 members live. Violence rises from fights between the gangs to see ...
San Juan United States: 125 337,300 37.06 42 San Pedro Sula Honduras: 278 771,627 36.03 43 Buenaventura Colombia: 157 315,743 35.16 44 Ensenada Mexico: 157 449,425 34.93 45 Distrito Central Honduras: 389 1,185,662 32.81 46 Philadelphia United States: 516 1,576,251 32.74 47 Cartagena Colombia: 403 1,287,829 31.29 48 Palmira Colombia: 110 358,806 ...
On 24 November 2022, the government of Honduras declared a state of emergency regarding gang violence in the country. [6] On 3 December 2022, the government announced that some constitutional rights would be suspended in the cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to crack down on criminal gangs in those two cities, particularly Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang.
San Pedro Sula (Spanish pronunciation: [sam ˈpeðɾo ˈsula]) is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley , about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea .
On April 26, 2008, 9 people were massacred in a prison located in the center of San Pedro Sula. [3] On May 3, 2008, 18 prisoners were massacred in a prison to the north of Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras. [4]
Sixteen foreigners were in charge of camera direction and special effects and it was shot on location in San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, Siguatepeque, La Lima and El Progreso, Yoro. Post-production took place in Costa Rica, on the now closed post company called Dart, everything was done on Final Cut Pro and Later moved to an Avid DS for its mastering.
Arrested in 2015, Archaga Carías was imprisoned in Honduras after being convicted of money laundering and illicit association. [8]On February 13, 2020, Archaga Carías left prison to attend a court hearing in the city of El Progreso, some 28 kilometers from San Pedro Sula.