Statism is chaos: The Violence Behind the Honduras Exodus

As President Barack Obama is considering offering refugee status to thousands of Honduran child migrants, photographer Ross McDonnell travelled to the Central American country on assignment for TIME to document the growing humanitarian crisis that has forced thousands of people to seek a better life in the U.S.

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“To try to understand life in Honduras is to begin to understand the vast exodus from that country and the population’s strong desire to migrate North,” McDonnell tells TIME. This exodus is not only fed by a desire to find refuge with family members who successfully made it to the U.S., but also by a desire “to escape poverty, unemployment and the effects of lawlessness that pervades in Honduras,” the Irish photographer adds. “It is the desire for a better life.”

McDonnell visited Honduras’ second largest city, San Pedro Sula, also known as the “Murder Capital of the World”. “San Pedro Sula and other parts of the country are seemingly locked in a downward spiral, driven by an impunity towards violent crime and a culture where human life has ceased to be valued,” McDonnell explains. “The blame for this level of violence is laid at the feet of two warring groups of ‘Maras’, the Mara Salvatrucha and the M18, both gangs that began life among Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles, California and have now come to dominate swathes of Central American barrios.”

http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/29/honduras-exodus-in-pictures/#7
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Statism is chaos: The Violence Behind the Honduras Exodus

Statism is chaos: The Violence Behind the Honduras Exodus

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