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we still have time to act. i'm doing all with what? 5th, blue. oh, i'm from latin unemployment in mail. ah, yeah, i mean i wouldn't want anything to happen to my child and ah, we only live once ah, a bit been as a journalist, i was covering drug trafficking and the politicians involved in an eastern culture . we had to flee the country after several death threats, and one assassination. a terminal will not think that the us is can i will,

can you tell me for, ah, where are you from? soon? from doris. i am terrible news that you don't find work there. he said, and if you do, it's badly tied in a sort of june, and then there is only extortion from the gang z ah ah, the, it's hard back home and the gangs, the merits are everywhere and the authorities are also corrupt. ah,

why manasseh, if they threaten and extort us, if we don't do it, they say, look a or these are will and to say, 6 years a week, buddha bless that amount could be even higher in money when many people are being extorted as a group. if the individual amount is lower, we'll talk about these target pro i, if you add up the 6 euros from each individual bus driver on day, it's already a considerable sum here. but that, that represent that they will hold us in mind if you assume that one company has 50 vehicles and each driver has to pay $6.00 euros when that's a lot of money or buy. thank god for these that the lady in general transport companies are particularly vulnerable by those put him go. i know of companies that have had to cancel the entire routes, because otherwise they would have had to pay $6000.00 euros per msn tow sink. when

the meal and beat us and there are terrible consequences for not paying the agent, but as i didn't move for the contrary, you did what if you don't, i am feeling then you get constant threat. every one ends up paying out of fear, roll up or be on, are you and i had colleagues that were killed for not paying work right off? what have they play and they have those. hm. mm. san petro sula is the center of business industry and commerce. in honduras, what the city is also a hot spot of criminal gangs, matters and extortion with how easy is will their mother beth me among themselves

at blah gang members brag about their tattoos and how many people they've killed and being the toughest things won't be. but outwards, outside of the gang environment where they behave very differently, this is him audio eel scheme. or the good point, i mean, you could be eating at a nice restaurant. he having a conversation about gang study, while the gang member with no visible tattoos, is sitting at the table next to your guest dial out to you. please remember that, but i by the name of lift up that love not i by the am better me aloe. the criminal gangs have infiltrated politics at the highest level of a me nice little they influence m. p. 's ministers, full and even the police. anti extortion unit 40 c f e is, will go, it's sad, but somehow funny that a commander of that unit was caught extorting the extortion of elk bully cl at but full i. so the police supposedly fighting crime were themselves blackmailing the

criminals and out is go now. so self in the extortion, money was then used to fund the political campaigns of m. p, 's, plymouth, and even a presidential candidate, a caliah to dial up as he is here. in san pedro sula, these extortionist gangs have become a real plague with that's not the only thing the city's residents have had to contend with. in november, 2020 forces of nature also took that all hurricane eta and yada caused the worst destruction in decades in the city and the surrounding region war and the areas inundated by the france still haven't fully recovered. when will you let you see it?

when it rains here, everything gets submerged. overloading the sewers and canals i put, some house is simply got flooded with sewage sion janet that was made us will close i but for many people lost their houses and my own home was also swept away by the flood from the media. and i'm from alarm, and i, you, well, i in the name of that doesn't this on the many houses here are emptying, like in the look of the people left them after the disaster. and most of them haven't returned yet because the streets are in such bad condition. lemme the land, everything else is in disrepair. melissa is where practically living in a ghost town. now. all isn't is all it isn't verified by mocking. mm . ready a dish at any point we only returned because otherwise we would be homeless . so we have nowhere else to go on the lives of many people have left everything

behind and migrated north towards the u. s. l, because the situation here will be so hopeless. what is the is that goes up by the government to so you can see that a b crack opened up in the whole up to one month of constant. right? that's a major window. when the water reached up to death will as well just kept pouring down without pause meant to and a lot of people ended up dying. yes. a yoyo indian? yes. which i didn't think will come in. would you pass on on the mallet more. there were dead animals, you had a water, i, dogs, horses, cows, is to kill. and this is what the land with like a ghost town. then most of the houses are in bad shape. and you can see how high the water level was at the time when bill a good a just by looking around at the bus to come almost everything got destroyed. and

the last yeah, we knew we thought it was booking. people didn't return to the houses because they were afraid of diseases. i used to say the straits of basically empty. this we're lucky is call. mm mm mm mm mm. who for land think it needed. i am almost all honduran migrants come from the poorest layers of society that they last have only and much it which i see while that's why there's a lot of inequality and no social justice. i feel my good, i'm the,

the country's biggest mafia is the government. which is i follow in a criminal activities emma gas, the law melody. bundy. is capital. all bogged people are trying to escape from hunger but a lot, and then they to have hopes and dreams of a better lion. you're lucky and they see politicians and rich entrepreneur living in the luxury mansions and driving expensive cars to cause us while the poor part of society has to bend over backwards. this justice. great. by anika, sophia, but echo. mm mm mm, mm mm. from st. petro sula, we travel to a luncheon, as the largest of honduras is 18 departments. it has a dark past of its own. it off i was, or what

a later kayla hadn't did. the launcher, used to be notorious for people taking the law into their own house, like in the old wild west that does it. i, b o. not valencia. that men, they used to be tremendous violence here. the last fierce dust and parties would often end in a large shad i'm gonna get down was st. douglas in law got this is the cathedral of hootie culpa. and every year on december 8th law, we celebrate the festival of the patron saint jail would have been naughty, i mean, but sometimes in 8 or 10 people would be shot dead during these celebrations. that boy polanko has also seen mass emigration together with her relief organization. linda, karen, yo yo is trying to convince the remaining residence to stay part home casala sunday . this case is not simple. emily telecom, our organization has done everything in its power to help the family co, morgan,

but their situation is complicated because one of the children has special need my son to come pick up on lanier. lenny s e n a. the mother has 2 other children and no job. well, yeah, seemed so understandably, she gets desperate to yes i yes, because no mother wants to see her children suffer. so when the malady gary i jadarias will see hoff noise at fancied how are you doing? i'm good. i was expecting you know? yeah. get a come right in here you go. well, where's the little one and then i right here. we thought, well our organization tries to help where it can be it. well no, she has 3 daughters in, in their father took off and she has no idea where he is going to you know,

some enough of her mom, mom i, she comes, this is the one with special needs or a low sweetie. you mammogram? ah, she need surgery, but it costs almost 3000 euros in surgery on this hip would straighten her leg so she would be able to walk. yeah, welcome in a nice the girls father left for the us about 3 years ago. at 1st i think he stayed in touch, but i haven't heard from him an agency that oh, but he doesn't answer the phone anymore or maybe he has a new number in there is no reply. in any case, i think i'm not on the federal. i know a lot of funding for one person. i think he got one minute late when he was 9 and

yesterday he asked me if he could take one of the girls with him. i said no, and maybe he was angry about that and no one will say one. and then on the they said what the so then all of the sudden he just looked on his own without any warning, just like that, have yards yet though my brother has a job, i a little, he drives a cabin tone seat and he's the one that brings us food every day and keeps us going . he and thought of the i look at it, go get a heads up on you don't want the taxi id as a motorcycle cab driver, you have good days and bad days. but you have to eat every day. oh,

but sondra. oh man though it's not easy when you have 8 people depending on an uncertain salary, this is better. a, it would make most people despair. but these are the conditions you'll find all over the country. i look at i english to bite, you look when you go on a liquid molecule, teacher said that there is a lot of migration fee if you're okay. yes more and more children are being taken out of school because their families are leaving. so the class. thank getting this going from a gallery beckett over some of it. and without students there won't be any work for the teachers, either. your monthly last name at the kindergarten will rate. there are hardly any children left there and you definitely want to leave for the us. so yes, this is you with her with her. little the other 2 you are leaving here at the yes with my mom. and how are you going to manage, traveling alone is dangerous,

so not to mention having a child with special needs was yelling murphy, i know it won't be easy. her paper with nature from i think i heard that it is supposed to be a really hard and exhausting journey. it takes 2 or even 3 weeks. but the lucky ones make it across the border like some down to the bottom. i think, well, it ain't that on. let's see how it goes for her. i trust that the gods healthy all will be well again, sending the data from here, the route goes to san pedro, so love to rock. and from there it crosses the border into guatemala. what their

mom, he goes to re guatemala and across the mexican bordeaux, mexico. immigration from the south has been turned into a shady business. and so long there are kidnappings and coyotes who demand phase for smuggling people across the u. s. broad outside that and there is very little anyone can do about it. yeah, i you see, boy paul, gosh, i bled. the asa mm mm oh, okay, log on to my yodi adela, wendy. most of the younger generation from milan show have moved to the us and amazon. they us there are villages completely devoid of young people. a lot god meadow run off or land ciocca. ready melissa, everywhere in honduras, the population is getting all the left because the young a flame, the situation at home because she are looking for

a better future in the united states. well, neither most gun loans looked all around me. bobby alberto count. she is a priest and who to culpa, a native of malta. he's lived in the city since 1995 count. she has raised money to build a soccer stadium, a home for the elderly, and a children's home in honduras, where corruption is everywhere. people trust county, it is obvious to the residence that the money he collected did not go into his, our pockets this, this is where i live, go. i have a small kitchen, a toilet, and a bathroom son darya by u. g. a thought bill. it's small, but it's enough for me. yeah, he is in peggy, this is my bedroom. noise for it's not because i'm poor that my mattress is on the

ground, the normal kids, because i tend to roll out of bed and hit my head on the floor. huh. so i prefer being closer to the ground, jeffrey, up at the low. ah, and it on the soils embryos. he has opened the door which i have been somewhat care nothing. some people think i can afford a bed, but that's not it. lamb, i didn't, a soap almost ran. we franciscans live very much by the motto, the poor but not miserable. no little stand up. yeah. oh, oh, oh, oh

ah ah . even even in 1st grade, last year she went to a kindergarten close by. but now she is going to school yesterday and his grandma jessie a 1000000. and when i am away, the kids will stay with my sister in law. and my mom from the 2 of them will take care of them for me. get income, what unpleasant me a young lady. some live,

some friends are in my cell. it will be very difficult because i've never been away from my daughter at all. well then, i guess i'll leave them in the illinois with scott. i'm only doing this to give all 3 of them a better future. even if to we'll have to stay here and focus on never abandon them like their father dead or common life. and then i say it is time for having to leave them behind because they're still so small percentage. if you sell a market, of course, you must continue coming to school every day unless we have a note from your parents. i am often, you know, i haven't, we've lost a significant number of students, not just here, but all over the region and all over the country. what ended up yeah, my gratian is really affecting us too. for there are fewer and fewer students every

lot in ma'am, i think we'll a whole lot of them one last year we had 70 school children on batter. anya, hi. so we were able to employ more teachers done the same. ha, said then the long, those are young dot my after us. now we're down to $42.00 children. why didn't buy the home out that one on one invite. oh, boy, what, maria? any you've, most of the children had emigrated to the usa with their parents balls. i am on the u. s. government recently decided to allow parents accompanying their under age children to cross the border. i'm with you. so now the children are effectively being used as visas, i think, i believe. yeah, that has caused many parents to take their children out of school and bring them along for the risky journey. that's what's been happening to our children lately, yet. okay, pathologies get my medical history. ah,

despite being less affected by the gang violence, elantra who's also seen a wave of migration to better understand this, we have to take a closer look at the region. i decided my lord was salvador, guatemala, and honduras. you all have a serious game problems, study the gangs when they got in the lunch all my exist even alonzo. we don't have any of that. venita street, gangs from the coast around san pedro sola oregon have tried to set up shop here, but i just had a spot for various reasons. they haven't been able to gain any footing. auto van. so no kind of look at either each other i use as an or lunch well, angela garcia, not than than my thank god we don't have that problem. you know, luncheon is,

so this is a region where everybody knows everybody thought. and if a stranger arrives here and tries, doctor doff echo, knows that they are either quickly sent back to where they came from, but the more straight into the afterlife, annoyed by them, but on them, you know, by jump on another one and done so that's why we're better protected against the gangs. i will indict battle. no, it's worse. in san pedro sola okay. and there people get rod because they don't know each other. it's more complicated there in bleak prospect. so one of the main reasons for the emigration of so many

a lunch residence, especially in the countryside, while a good are they were more than 1000 meters above sea level. when i'm at the door here, we've just finished our coffee harvest lead within with a little joint. yes. almost. i mean on the la football coffee, it was a bit of that in the when we've honestly i, this year's harvest was very good for us. oil. what's been going on, but we had real problems finding enough worker now you letter back with me because he knows. yeah, yeah, that, so now lemme know the old idea is as gather, bought again, there is a shortage of workers, lamar, but the main reason is that most of the young people who are usually working in the fields have emigrated say one door immediate on flight. ha, they go to the united states and the little guy thinking that will be the solution to all their problems. let to lose young as will throw lemma.

m. okay, our la la la, la bet. now a days are you. there are good job opportunities here as well. when i see there are key and went through and i think that will slow down the emigration a bit higher than a ballpark. lemme let me get a feel. he le let us on most of us pull farm as focus on the simpler crops, mainly growing corn and beans. gay and look at mosque. but those harvests are basically with nothing bad or it's all gonna look and embody this la la la la honey or the last thing i tried to grow was bane simple enough out of sale. i looked at the thought i had to invest for 100 euros in my blogs, and i learned about the, the meal and beat us for

a simple example almost the end. but of course, as a farmer, you assume that you will make a profit on the harvest and get the cost on those. but i didn't earn anything from my veins on the contrary line, but it's okay. so i only got 120 euro's back out of my 400 euro investment. laid them down basis. i've tried twice now at all, but i couldn't make a profit eat the time they get ok steel on the hits. i don't know what i would do. i love my country and i'm happy here, but i'm a ghost. so friend, i guess i will have to try a 3rd title. basil amend luasa. we'll see bobby, i'm not upset always.

ah . i am afraid that they will send us back because we're all making a great sacrifice by deciding to leave bar and the can win. but i dream of a better future for my child. i want her to finally be able to walk normally. okay, always happen, a doctor told me that with surgery she has a 90 percent chance of being able to use her legs. normally what he said, i know says ellen, she has moderate cerebral palsy. said it, and it's left all of her left side, paralyzed on that particular day, and then said, ever thought a lot of but i'm excited atlanta place cannibal is in my oldest daughter, also need a din again adam again,

i don't really want to leave her up or any of them they had all they all need me at the one with special needs more than the others. say. yes, sad thought your bye moment that you'll i like i can understand her gestures and facial expressions. she signals with her eyes when she is thirsty or hungry. without me, her life would be much harder. must they sat then? then? then yet it will la, nina thought of course she wants to help her daughter no later on, but there's no guarantee that she'll make it in. and one possibility is that the girls will lose their mother along the way for a felony causing malady. i mean, yeah, yeah, he's sitting out here in her girl and not knowing what dangers lie ahead of him on hold again. no, sorry,

we can't stop her. but we also don't have the resources to give her the help she needs to hear when the love way more than that. but the number no matter what are the silica ethically i'm highlighting. oh, i know be any gangs in alonzo but that doesn't mean residents are safe from their violence. those trying to get to the u. s. in search of a better life may encounter great danger along the way. daniel santos, his 2 brothers set out for the us some time ago. no one had heard from them since until one day when the phone rang your model we received voice messages. will una molina give come up? you won't see her sons again until you pay $1.00 after the $500.00 isn't enough, and you haven't even deposited that much. the minimum would be half price, you know, they put $2000.00 each. meaning while they're $1500.00,

won't get you anywhere. and oakwood came in for me to carry out or show, milled on the kidnappers 1st demanded, $8000.00 on let us say, well, how do i then they went down to 2000 and the law hampton, with joe, how friends and acquaintances told us as much money together as they could hold a little bit in order. but how are we going to find that kind of money? one of the name of oklahoma we live from hand to mouth, delilah, and mostly eat rice and bessie. unless it's only by making a collection in the neighboring villages. could we finally managed to get the full 2000 that the kidnappers had demanded and the middle, not of kilo, hey, the city of the 2 of them had been planning to leave for a long time, but i was against it, but i thought they went any way of being lazy but i know what the, what, what they said it was just sad. holloway,

i went home and all i could do was cry. you know, i didn't know where we were going to get such an amount today. yeah. a lot. but when my friends found out about the situation, i but they started scraping together the money to save my brothers another bottle. a battle on where they got the kidnappers know the ransom a lot, otherwise we'd never have made it to the la moss. a brothers this poor thing that i know you're not but you know, not yet doing that. i can't wait to hear from them, but i still have no word like yet. okay. so do you think they'll return? okay, no committee on my list that will lead them back to me with the help of god don't make it fabulous. i had our kids i i haven't been happy since the day they left it. it was especially bad when they were in captivity or not. it's just a i'm

with somebody i'm looking for a data line, but it's not easy unless patsy. no bus in this burnett's yet and they are risking their lives. no one, no, it's unwise. and i think you should return home if you can't make it across the border with lisa lucy on this because for ah, the town of rosario, with 5000 inhabitants, depends on money send from the us a message saying, and want to keep us audio profits a lot from these remittances. i believe we important to play increase the quality

of life for our residents. land helps us further develop our town. but i'm not a listed quando lent a lot. i got us of letty emigrants had helped their home towns by sending money back to make life a little better for their relative mcclung g. c. m. handle. if i still buddha, a guy in the money arriving and helped to improve the infrastructure in every ways . i'm, it was, will be the end. it's also used to repair people's homes for money and raised the general quality of life in town in metabolism. let me uriah that most of the construction right now is bonded with money from relatives abroad, l. m as us many resario residents trying to emigrate to the united states,

but ended up in the hands of mexican kidnappers. cono's re us is one of them was if i, when i was kidnapped on my way to the u. s. s. 2 and i just happened in right? no, so the army where i was waiting for a few days to be able to cross the river. fickle me. it's a i had my son with me. i'm with a non legit we were waiting in a shed and from there we were both kidnapped and you know, they grabbed us and demanded a ransom for our freedom. piano. what the, what for me? dollars? $4000.00 each allison this i'm, we're gonna more. our family was certain that they both get killed with a ransom that the kidnappers demanded was way too high. we didn't have $8000.00. i mean, it was a really tough time for us. okay. minimal mental well,

momento, it was a terrible experience is it's still painful to think back on what we had to go through the momentum and even after they've gone it to the gulf cartel. they could not he, belinda, man, lodge ransoms from their families. i did a little with the people in town began to raise some money, was able to people who we walked from village to village collecting donation. so i said the name of the alarmist. i got a lot of help from neighbors and friends out of a founding. how did they threaten me? see, oh, you know, but they said they'd kill us if our families didn't pay out. ah, let me know, we would. i've been threatened with guns and machetes. let's go,

and how did they treat you with an offer marable very badly at 1st, they intimidated me and threatened to hurt me if i didn't keep silently, i can see they stopped me for a week and didn't even give me water with on balls yet. there johan, see not now. just where you alone, liam. i know there were others in the winter, a boy that he and i was kept in 3 different places and they had more than 150 prisoners followed the boy. the kidnap is bragged about having even more hide outs and people in captivity in up what he's just like on the police are in on it to daniel dollar for every prisoners. they can't tell paid the police $500.00 all of one of the up. it's a business for the police as well. yeah. you have been with us to say you couldn't go to the police? no, i have no, we were hiding from them. i left especially the state police.

this was how was it to return home after that? no, no, i was extremely happy even though i didn't reach my destination i at least later on one of these you'll be nice when the mean it was a happy day when my son and grandson returned it and i thank god for returning them with an online thing, i just hope you won't try again, but you haven't gone through such terrible things said maybe with time it will become safer and the kidnappings will stop. awesome. then he give it another try. although he saying he won't leave again. little loss and only god can tell us the future little can only god knows if he will eventually make it to the u. s. e l y n battle b in boy a our know the other day. sorry, one that was your son doing when he returned after all of this. and obama gary has called, well, be in delgado and he was amazed, he added and then

a terrible stay up. whenever he and his son both had to get ivy therapy because they didn't eat it all at guy normally was very weak and had no appetite seem to come. i suffered from mental distress free. yes, he is all he just kept crying all the time. yet i that don't fall. okay. bustle. the stories of carlos re us and the brothers of daniel santos could be said to have a happy ending. unfortunately, that's not how all of them turn out well what our guy, what hurricane, idaho, my son lost everything here as a result he said mama, i can't stay here any more. i have nothing left with that. so i'm heading north. i see maria maria, but i'll not boil miss hill brussel. he'll come in early,

but he kept in touch with us during his month long journey when the yeah. and he made it to make alan a texas 1000000000 and said that, well, the dangerous part was done to your bill. he had crossed the river on the border and the desert gruesome and was totally exhausted from the effort of both. but yeah, am i that i missed this dias law. we think this is the last picture he sent as a staff were load them up, we got it on the 16th of july, a flag on a day he was eating and told us that the danger had passed on b. okay. um yep. without boy in front me, you know. see yes i for the last time we heard from him at the facility. it's hard. my him. i say we posted his photo on social media because we had no other way to look for him only. it's the only channel available to us. last

lady, someone sees the photo and know something and you say i was maybe someone has seen him or heard from it. i mean be anything. i'll say uncle e look every so far we've only received message has been demanding around 40000000000 bobby in a it'll be the in the old indoor lattice. how much do they want or charming? thought? $8000.00. in some cases, even 15000 or 20000 in a one bank for they send us fake photos where his head has been. photo shopped onto another body, he sent up an hour out that went canopy in mila. in some he has a knife to his throat when she, the photos are accompanied by a message that he will die. if we don't pay in the casino hotel, i'm homeless. i mean, i don't alarm at that. you'll come or let big. i just want to know with my son is dead. him went though just to know that i can't go on living with this uncertainty

with ah ah gravy. sanchez, this story has just begun and only time will tell how her journey pans out and going down the toyota is demand $7500.00 for getting lee and my daughter across goes, she's 7500. so from here, san francisco della passed to the u. s. officer thomas, my son. yes. all the way to the u. s. this town. see i got a you have a guarantee. oh, sure. no sign in on a yadi was very clear about that. even if i don't make it across the border,

i won't get any money back. then the money is simply locked out to see when you make the journey at your own risk. but if anyone ah ah, a town how uncommon dream. a young man who india joins nations are

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