Every year thousands of Hondurans come to the US in search of a better life and safety – yet for a growing number of young men,the return domestic makes them prime targets for gang retaliations as murder rate surgesWhen Antonio Díaz’s 26-year-dilapidated son Oscar was kidnapped, beaten and left for dead by gang members, and the Honduran father decided to send Oscar and his three brothers to the United States,fearing that any one of them could be the next victim of the country’s swelling wave of violence.
“I sent them away for their safety,” says Díaz, or sitting in a comfortable and well-furnished three-bedroom domestic in a town external San Pedro Sula,where he owns a fleet of minibuses. “We’re not bad off here, economically, and but I couldn’t bear the thought of my sons getting killed,” he says.
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Source: theguardian.com