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    • #3701
      DrDave
      Participant

      See you there boys and girls, welcome to my playground :)

      Honduras Has Highest Murder Rate in Central America

      TEGUCIGALPA – Honduras has the highest murder rate in Central America, according to a report from the office of the country’s commissioner for human rights, Ramon Custodio.

      The report, to which Efe had access, showed that Honduras registered in 2009 a murder rate of 66.8 for every 100,000 inhabitants, a notable increase in recent years.

      In 2006, Honduras had the third highest homicide rate in the region with 46.2 murders for every 100,000 inhabitants, behind Guatemala with 47 and El Salvador with 65 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.

      “Two years later, the murder rate in Honduras increased to 57.9 for every 100,000 inhabitants, more than El Salvador (52), Guatemala (48) and the rest of the countries in the area,” the report said.

      The document, which Custodio recently sent to Congress, said that in Honduras “close to 18,500 homicides” have been perpetrated in the last five years.

      Custodio stressed in the document his “concern, first, because the right to life is so little respected in this country, and second, because of the high degree of impunity enjoyed by those dedicated to committing acts of violence against people’s lives and personal safety.”

      Guns were used in 77 percent of the homicides registered between 2005-2008, while 36 percent of the murders in 2005-2009 were suspected of being contract killings.

      Honduras, like some of its Central American neighbors, is also plagued by youth gangs, and the country has experienced politically motivated violence since the June 2009 coup that ousted then-President Mel Zelaya. EFE

    • #12086
      ROB
      Keymaster

      “Youth Gangs”? Is that really who is responsible?

    • #12087
      DrDave
      Participant

      Gangbangers don’t die of old age. It is primarily MS-13 and Mara 18 but San Pedro Sula alone has 50+ gangs that earned the title “Superviolent.” It’s been bad for a long time but the killing is at a level I’ve not seen since we’ve been associated with Honduras.

    • #12088
      DrDave
      Participant

      Another Number One Ranking

      Honduras most dangerous country for journalists
      IANS Saturday 3rd April, 2010

      With the killing of five journalists in March, Honduras has become the world’s most dangerous country for media professionals, a new report says.

      The report by Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres Borders (RSF) said Friday ‘no one has been brought to justice for any of the murders or any of the physical attacks or acts of intimidation or censorship of journalists and human rights activists’ in the country in recent months.

      The two most recent incidents where reporters were killed occurred on March 26, when two journalists of the Excelsior and Super 10 radio station were shot dead inside their car in Juticalpa town.

      Meanwhile, a correspondent for Radio America was forced to leave the country after an attempt on his life on March 26.

      RSF said the journalist ‘took the risk of reporting violations of free expression and human rights that have taken place since June last year.’

      ‘Shortly after he received telephone threats, two gunmen opened fire on his home in his absence. He was then pursued through the streets but managed to escape.’

      RSF also wrote a petition to the 27-nation European Union Friday that ‘a resolution is needed at the European level, and other levels, urging the Honduran government to react to this collapse of the rule of law.’

      At least two dozen media professionals have been killed, hundreds imprisoned and many independent media shut down in the country.

      RSF had earlier said a TV news editor ‘had been mistreated and humiliated on several occasions by soldiers’.

      The media group also called attention to the threat posed to journalists by drug cartels, after journalists reported getting threats from drug traffickers.

    • #12089
      ROB
      Keymaster

      What;s the most dangerous country for NGOs?

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