Honduras

Migrant smuggling at the border is now a billion-dollar enterprise

CARRIZO SPRINGS, Texas – From the street, the small brown space was mundane but pleasant. A bright yellow toy school bus and a red truck hung from the rope fence, and the front of space showed a giant Texas lone star. But in the garden an empty cell phone house that a prosecutor later called a “space of horrors. “It emerged one day in 2014, when a guy called from Maryland to report that his father-in-law, Moises Ferrera, a migrant from Honduras, was being detained and tortured there.

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Causes and implications of the in Honduras

The impeachment of former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been hotly debated and has led to a complex political war with hemispheric implications. The episode drew attention to issues closely related to the geopolitical disputes that have lately plagued Latin America and the limits of the foreign community’s ability to cope with a perceived democratic collapse.

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