Latin America is considered one of the most violent places in the world. Every day in the streets of cities like San Pedro Sula, Guatemala, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador, and Mexico City, the murders, robberies and violence are increasingly present. Ineffective internal politics of the area is unstable, drug trafficking into the U.S. is uncontrollable and unsafe neighborhoods or Maras 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 7104 killings documented by police. In these places the use of youth and children to train as Sicarios is a regular job. They are attracted by the ease of earning money that gives them respect and fear. In the process of training the young killer from the poorest strata of society consumed becoming true harbingers of death.In a country without war where violent deaths occur every hour.
The social portrait of Honduras is considered the world's most terrifying place.Levels of violence triggered after the coup in 2009 that deposed President Manuel Zelaya by Roberto Micheletti have put the country in a permanent state of despair for his crime. In 2008, 3418 people died incredibly, according to a tally 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.