From Walker to Houston to San Pedro Sula to Santa Barbra to San Fernando to Roatan and back home to Walker. This year five brave and adventurous Interact members jumped at the opportunity to go to Honduras to volunteer their time.

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras _ In a city that's just earned the title of the most dangerous in the Americas, few people dare go to the police with complaints. Rather, they view police officers with fear, scorn and disgust. "Society has completely lost confidence in the police. The citizenry is more afraid of the police than the criminals," said Jhon Cesar Mejia, a federal prosecutor assigned to look ...

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras _ From U.N. chambers to the halls of the State Department, global pressure on countries to protect the rights of homosexuals and transgender people is rising. For Josue Hernandez, the new emphasis can't come fast enough.

In Honduras, a culture of impunity and drug-war violence make a deadly combination Sarah Childress Honduras has had a rough time of things lately, but things look like they're just getting worse. A major city, San Pedro Sula, was declared the world's  most violent city the other day, outranking even the dangerous border town of Juarez, Mexico, which has held the title for several years running ...

MANCHESTER United will be asked to play a friendly in one of the world's toughest cities

Flanked by police officers with assault rifles, and riding down a highway in the back of a police pickup, police commissioner Julian Hernandez explains the difficult task of fighting crime.

Mexico's not the only country south of the U.S. border with a growing drug problem: the narco wars in Central America have triggered staggering homicide rates and concerns about how to establish peace there.

Amid rising crime, the Peace Corps pulled out of in Honduras this week.

The U.S. government's decision to pull out all its Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras for safety reasons is yet another blow to a nation still battered by a coup and recently labeled the world's most deadly country.

Five of the top 10 most violent cities in the world are in Mexico, and almost all in the Americas. Sarah Childress After three years in first place, Juarez, Mexico, may have slipped to second place this year. But the border town and several of Mexico's other cities still remain among the most violent. In a study released by the Citizen's Council for Public Security and Justice , a Mexican ...