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TOCOA, Honduras (AP) — Seven bullets pounded into Juan López outside a small white church on a sunny September afternoon. Six shots in the chest. One in the head. And a masked gunman standing ...
Between 2005 and 2011, Honduras’ murder rate dramatically increased, yet 65% of murders occurred in only 5% of the nation’s municipalities. In La Ceiba, a city consistently ranking within the top five most murderous in the country, three fourths of violent deaths occurred in just one-third of the city’s neighborhoods.
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
San Pedro Sula was the "murder capital of the world" [9] until early 2016 when Caracas, Venezuela, surpassed its homicide rate. [12] Since the 2009 Honduran military coup "unemployment and underemployment rates have doubled while the number of people living in extreme poverty has skyrocketed."
Gunmen burst into a pool hall in northern Honduras and opened fire, killing 11 people and prompting President Xiomara Castro to announce security measures including curfews in the area amid a wave ...
By RYAN GORMAN 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 ...
Honduras [24] 572 741 761 896 22 Santos: São Paulo Brazil [10] [11] 321 346 327 328 342 393 9 633 705 811 23 São Paulo: São Paulo Brazil [1] 7,419 7,520 6,912 6,887 7,535 8,903 9,247 9,202 10,122 11,499 24 Vereeniging: Gauteng South Africa [25] 579 690 741 673 721 605 25 Vitória: Espírito Santo: Brazil [10] [26] 535 595 513 747 839 827 855 ...
Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador's unforgiving approach to ...