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US aid is helping reduce gang violence in Honduras
If 2016 felt short of good news, you might have missed that Honduras – once the murder capital of the world – has seen a big drop in homicides. Pulitzer Prize winning author Sonia Nazario first reported this story for the New York Times and she joined us in studio.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readIf 2016 felt short of good news, you might have missed that Honduras – once the murder capital of the world – has seen a big drop in homicides. 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. Sonia Nazario won a Pulitzer Prize and other awards for Enrique’s Journey, a book that alerted Americans to the plight of children fleeing from Central America. .
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2 of 7Talking Points: About 2016- 1:19Police facial recognition databases may include you
- 7:54US aid is helping reduce gang violence in HondurasYou’re reading this
- 14:42The secret history of cyber war
- 15:00Terror in Europe
- 23:55State Department hero reflects on the 'Mirror Test'
- 34:08How the Right went wrong
- 43:05Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about the history of the human genome