When one of my followers invited me to visit his neighborhood in Honduras, my friends warned me not to go-The New York Times named it in 2014 as the most dangerous neighborhood in San Pedro Sula. It is a poor neighborhood with 100,000 inhabitants, a neighborhood devastated by hurricanes Eta and Iota, and a neighborhood where gangs entered schools to recruit children, charged even fruit vendors extortion, and killed people who crossed the "invisible borders" that divided the gang territories. The neighborhood is called Barrio Chamelecón. A place feared internationally since Christmas week 2004, when alleged gang members massacred 22 adults and 6 children inside a school bus.
The follower who contacted me assured me that Chamelecon had evolved in recent years, the war between the gangs had calmed down, and residents and visitors can now peacefully walk its streets. He said that he wanted to show me what Chamelecon is really like, a neighborhood totally different from the how the media portrays it. I didn't know if he was telling me the truth or not-and there was only one way to find out.
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