Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death. President Xiomara Castro said Tuesday's ...

Pulitzer Prize winning author Sonia Nazario first reported this story for the New York Times and she joined us in studio. We began our conversation with the Rivera Hernandez neighborhood of a town in Honduras called San Pedro Sula. There, 194 people were "killed or hacked to death in 2013," including a 13-year-old named Andrea Martinez.

In the hills above the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, Cecilia* points towards a vacant house, teetering on an eroding slope. Like so many in the neighbourhood, it was not so much abandoned as emptied at gun point. “One day the gang’s hitman showed up at ...

ICE Houston arrested over 3,500 criminal aliens during government shutdown, including gang members, murderers and child predators in major enforcement operation.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A 21-year-old American woman was detained in Honduras, authorities said on Wednesday, for allegedly heading a faction of the Mara Barrio 18, one of the gangs responsible for a crime wave in the Central American nation that has sent ...

When he was in his early twenties, Santiago Ávila had but one thing on his mind: music. As the singer in a heavy metal band, music dominated his life to such an extent that it largely obscured many of the harsh realities of life in his home city of ...