San Pedro Sula, Honduras News

Honduras: State-Sponsored Death Squad Terror by Stephen Lendman Adrienne Pine is American University Professor or Anthropology.

For William Ordonez and his wife Carolia, starting a new business in San Pedro Sula, Honduras seemed like a great idea.

In an Associated Press story about a Honduran gang member who disappeared in police custody, the gang member's middle name was misspelled because of a typographical error during editing.

But for those people who call San Pedra Sula - recently crown the world's most violent city for the second year in a row - this is the daily reality of a region ripped apart by the drugs trade.

When Reuters photographer Jorge Cabrera went to San Pedro Sula, Honduras to cover an international football match he travelled with the self-styled 'caravana morguera' of journalists and police who attend the scenes of violent crimes in the city, which has been named by the UN as the most violent city in the world for the second consecutive year ... (more)

But for those people who call San Pedra Sula - recently crown the world's most violent city for the second year in a row - this is the daily reality of a region ripped apart by the drugs trade.

So begins the poem of Katherine Marisol Murillo, a 15-year-old girl who recalls the circumstances that led her to Nuestra Pequeñas Rosas, a haven in the middle of San Pedro Sula, Honduras.