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Crime in Honduras: A Product of Geography

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Lino Miani
Board of Contributors

Jun 19, 2019 | 10:30 GMT

A military police checkpoint in November 2017 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The underlying condition that enables the extreme violence of the country's homicide highways is the region's geography.

A military police checkpoint in November 2017 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images)

(ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images)

Highlights

  • The geography of Central America forms a chokepoint for drugs and violence traveling from sources in South America to markets in the north.
  • In Honduras, northward movement is limited to two corridors; the lack of any logistically significant alternative routes north concentrates opportunities as well as crime on these corridors.
  • Knowing where and when to increase defensive measures is the best way to stay out of trouble in Honduras.

The region's geography enables the extreme violence of the country's homicide highways....

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