A young boy draws in the dirt as his parents act as buffers between the police, military and gunmen in San Pedro Sula. Hours earlier, men had fired shots at police. Shell casings littered the ground outside.
Angel and Gerson pose for a portrait in Tegucigalpa’s municipal dump where they work in Tegucigalpa. “I used to come here as a boy and started seeing how things are done here,†Gerson says. “Never thought I’d end up here.â€
Angelica Ortiz looks through the window at the body of her ten-year-old son who was killed during a confrontation after an extortionist killed a local shopkeeper. Police say her son was killed when a mob went after the assailant. Other sources say it was a stray bullet from the police.
Merchants go about their business while a body lays in the middle of the street in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. With daily murders as high as twenty, bodies will lay for hours in the sun before the coroner has time to pick them up.
Three boys hide from the camera while officials dig up a body that was buried in a cornfield in San Pedro Sula. The boys were waiting to see if their missing friend was in the grave. He wasn’t.
The body of 10 year -old Daniel Chacon who was shot by a stray bullet in a confrontation after an extortionist killed a shopkeeper in San Pedro Sula. He’d been collecting scrap cardboard to augment the family’s income.
Officials remove a body that was found in a shallow grave in a cornfield. Police will keep digs to the precise location, not wanting to find more bodies.