In San Pedro Sula, Honduras last year, 187 were murdered for every 100,000 people. That tragic statistic makes the city the most violent in the world.
The statistic is even more startling when you compare it to Detroit, Michigan, the most dangerous city in the US, which had roughly 48 homicides per 100,000 people last year.
Gangs, drugs, and poverty plague every day in the South American city of San Pedro Sula. These images show how brutal life there can be.
Drugs have wreaked havoc on Honduras, especially San Pedro Sula. Below, members of Honduras' military police arrange almost 900 pounds of cocaine seized in a container carrying soft drinks coming from Costa Rica in July 2014.
Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Roughly 15% of US-bound cocaine lands in Honduras at some point.
Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
More than half of all cocaine seizures in Central America occur in El Salvador and Honduras, and Honduras' numbers more than tripled between 2010 and 2011. In 2011, San Pedro Sula police discovered the first Mexican-run cocaine lab, shown below, ever found in Central America.
Source: PolicyMic, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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