San Pedro Sula - Honduras' two biggest and most dangerous street gangs declared an unprecedented truce on Tuesday, offering peace in the world's most violent country in exchange for rehabilitation and ...

Trafficking people and drug smuggling are lucrative businesses for criminal gangs which have strongholds across Honduras including in San Pedro Sula where parts of the city remain largely ...

Gangs often have significant influence in ... with another in the nearby city of San Pedro Sula beginning on 4 July. Around 20,000 inmates co-exist in 26 overcrowded prisons, with a United Nations ...

In December, she announced a state of emergency to address the gangs’ turf wars ... day curfew in the town and another in nearby San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras. Officials indicated that ...

President Xiomara Castro announced via Twitter a 15-day curfew in Choloma between 9 pm and 4 am, effective immediately, and another in San Pedro Sula, effective July 4. "Multiple operations ...

Gangs sometimes demand victims “turn over ... In 2004, a fire at a prison in San Pedro Sula about 100 miles north of the capital killed more than 100 inmates. The worst prison disaster ...

The extraordinary measures target the capital Tegucigalpa and the northern business hub of San Pedro Sula, which have both struggled under the sway of powerful gangs like Barrio 18 and MS-13.

What she saw was devastating: The neighbourhood is a high-crime area on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where ruthless street gangs hold sway. It had been blanketed in such a thick layer of ...

In 2011, San Pedro Sula police discovered the first Mexican-run cocaine lab, shown below, ever found in Central America. Drugs trafficked by violent gangs fuel much of the conflict. Here ...

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP ... including one that is the dividing line between the rival gangs Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18. At the bridge where Hernández’s tent is pitched, tattooed ...

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — By now, the young couple thought they’d be in the United States. Somewhere, anywhere, in the United States. They thought they’d have jobs — he’d work ...