How are the people of the growing tension currently go in and be inside, starts joining 8 on dw, the unemployment and then well see, i mean what, anything to happen to my child . A tiny, well need the plants, the amazing part of the payments. Here as a journalist, i was covering Drug Trafficking and the politicians involved in that he is going to assume we had to leave the country after several Death Threats and one assassination. A terminal or not the subscriber. Can you tell me the where you frame soon from endures. I can tell them that you dont find the work that you see and if you do, its badly paid the list of good. And then there is old extortion from the game, the piece. Its hard back home. And the games the mattress are everywhere. And the authorities are also corrupt, the why im in the eyes of if they threaten next door to us. And if we dont do is they say well pay or these follow and to say 6 years of wait for the video. So that amount could be even higher money when many people are being stored it as a group that the individual amount is lower. Hold on for these target, but if you add up to 6 year olds from each individual bus driver on day money, its already a considerable sum. Your boss does that, but i think that they will not say much. And if you assume that one company has 50 vehicles and each driver has to pay 6 years when thats a lot of money is or buy something but at least the, in general transport companies are particularly vulnerable by those put him go. I know of companies that have had to cancel the entire routes because otherwise they would have had to pay 6000. 00 euros per month see, and the sink when the mainland beat us. And there are terrible consequences for not paying the rent. But as i move where they comprise the, the morning fee done by a, im feeling a then you get constance. Right . Everyone ends up paying out of federal. But they are you or by the police that were killed for not paying more time around an hour before the sun. Petro sula is to send to the business industry and comments in honduras. But the city is also a hot sponsor of criminal gangs, matters at extortion. But how easy is their money for us among themselves at the gang members brag about their tattoos . How many people theyve killed and being the thomas teams from b, but outwards, outside of the gang environment for they behaved very differently. This is and that you do, youll see me all the time. You could be eating at a nice restaurant and having a conversation about games and stuff in one of the game member with no visible tattoos is sitting at the table next to you can start allowed to play as i remember. But i, by the end up with plus the, the might have been the better me out a little bit. Criminal gangs have infiltrated politics at the highest levels. Mean nice through the influence emptiness, ministers. So and even the police anti extortion unit to point fee of the diesel vocal. Its sad but somehow funny that a commander of that unit was caught extorting the extortion it is fully c. I left but for that, so the police supposedly binding crime were themselves blackmailing the criminals. Notice of the bonus hotel. The extortion money was then used to fund the political campaigns of, in peace agreements, have had even a president ial candidate, but it can be up to that. But as he is here in san petro sula, these extortion is gang, so become a real plank. But thats not the only thing the city is residents of have to contend with. In november, 2020 forces of nature also took dental hurricane eta and you all to cause to was destruction in decades in the city and the surrounding region and the areas and on the day to find a plants still havent fully recovered. When will you ever have to see it when it rains here, everything gets submerged. Overloading the sewers and canals. Some houses simply got flooded with sewage shown join us. That was negative. You close like so many people lost their houses and my own home was also swept away by this lot of sending me the and im some of them and that you while i and thats what gets done. One of the many houses here empty room like into the people left them off to the disaster and most of them havent returned yet because the streets are in such bad condition. The land, Everything Else is in disrepair and my list of is where practically living in a ghost town now, all isnt as little as to theres some federal funds from the vin number there and they put me on the returns because otherwise we would be homeless. So we have nowhere else to go. I wonder, most of god, many people have left everything behind and migrated north towards the us. So for me, so because the situation here will be so hopeless, less as little as that goes up and the government is the you can see that a big crack opened up in these will after one month if you constant, right . Thats who may go into when the water raged up to the will says, but it just kept pulling down without employment. And a lot of people ended up dying. The c o n d o in. Yes, which i handed to me and well do both of them of what theyre, what did animals that want to go . I dogs, horses, couse, is to go and this is what level where its like, it goes down. And then most of the houses are in bad shape. And you can see how high the water level was at the time when we looked at it just by looking around. People have to come almost everything got destroyed and the last have a new or we thought it was booking. People didnt return to the houses because they were afraid of diseases of diet. So the straits of basically empty. This are lucky is the land to give me the almost all hung during migrants come from the forest layers of society that did the last have only and much it will try see what of that. So theres a lot of inequality. Valley and no social justice must be a mug. And the countrys biggest mafia is the government to say which is on the ball and the criminal activities. The gas, the model of the bundy is the bottom bulk people are trying to escape from under the land and they to have hopes and dreams of a better line. Youre lucky and they see politicians and rich entrepreneur are you living in a luxury mansions and driving expensive cars to close up . While the for part of society has the bend over backwards is just as great bioclinic as well for you. But the, from the same address, we travel to a lunch of as the launch is stuff on doriss 18 departments, it has a dock post of its own paid off. I was on for the late. Okay. Not heading for lunch or used to be in the tory is for people taking the law into their own hands. Like in the old wild west, the dogs id be i will not realize yet that i mean they used to be tremendous violent c, k, last vs tests that bodies with off of the end of the legit. Im getting a kiss, doubtless. Sent those things. Ive got the cathedral of who decals every year on december. Right. And then we celebrate the festival of the patron saint j or to the 90. I mean, but sometimes an 8 or 10 people would be shot dead during the celebration. So that way, well, what andrew has also seen mass emigration together with relief organization. Linda cut on yo yo is trying to convince the remaining residents to stay punt. Oh gosh. All that stuff. Do you think this case is not filled in with telephone . Our organization has done everything in his power to help the family for more than what their situation is complicated or a because one of the children has special needs. Some of the Company Called for lending money for cn. Its the mother has 2 other children and no job whether you seem to so understandably, she gets desperate to you. Yeah. Because no mother wants to see her children suffer. So no matter, gary, are you without us . Well see halls noise at positives. So how are you doing . Good. I was expecting you. Come right in here you go. Wheres the little one right here . So below the organization tries to help where i can see it when she has 3 daughters being in their father took off and she has no idea where he is going you know, setting. Uh huh. See she comes, this is the one with special needs or yeah, hello sweetie. Uh huh. Does she need surgery . But it costs almost 3000 heroes and surgery on this hip with straightened her legs. So she would be able to walk you. Youre welcome. The any of the girls father left for the us about 3 years ago . At 1st i think he stayed in touch, but i havent heard from him in ages this, but of course he doesnt answer the phone anymore. Or maybe he has a new number in the middle, but theres no reply in any case for, for them to come in on this. But a lot of funding for want this to happen. You see the when he was in on and yesterday he asked me if he could take one of the girls with him. I said no, and maybe he was angry about that. If the one will say women that up on the corner this and forth. And i still think then all of the sudden he just looked on his own without any warning he just like that the heavier i forget the brother has a job. I and then he drives a cabin town. See, and hes the one that brings us fluid every day and keeps us going in the gas had well have to sign up on the on the taxi i the as a motorcycle cab driver and you have good days and bad days. But you have to eat every day. So thats on home in the its not easy when you have 8 people depending on an uncertain salary, and its just better it would make most people despair. But these are the conditions youll find all over the country in. Okay, i english device youre going to look well, now the kids, the teacher said that theres a lot of migration see here. Yes, im more and more children are being taken out of school because their families are leaving. So the class or Something Like that, right . Getting this going from a get already taken over some of the and without students there wont be any work for the teachers either. The last time they said that the kindergarten will really, there are hardly any children left there. And so then you definitely want to leave with us. Yes, they see you with her with her. The other 2 you are leaving here. I think yes. With my mom or one, how are you going to manage . Traveling alone is dangerous. So not to mention having a child with special needs, special and loyalty, i know it wont be easy for the nature. Ive heard that it is supposed to be really hard and exhausting journey. It takes 2 or even 3 weeks to lucky ones make it across the border, but some dont the most, they call it a but lets see how it goes. I trust that theyve got healthy. Well, well be way in the game saturday and view the yeah. The from here, the route goes to san pedro silva cut out. And from there it crosses the border into guatemala and let them on. It goes through guatemala and across the mexican bordeaux, mexico. Immigration from the south is being turned into a shady business in the sun on their kidnappings, in coyote suit demand phase for smuggling people across the us border side. There was very little anyone can do about it. Yeah. You see more a fall . Of course i play the awesome the catalog and im like already and then im going to most of the Younger Generation from alonzo have moved to the us and amazon. They asked their villages completely devoid of young people, you know, kind of a little know, orlando, come. Ready everywhere, and hunter, as the population is getting all the lot because the young are playing the situation at home looking for a Better Future in the United States. So need the most kind of move around me. Oh, thats the account she is. A priest includes the caliber, a native of malta, hes lived in the city since 1995 count. She has raised money to build a soccer stadium, home for the elderly adult Childrens Home in honduras, where corruption is everywhere. People trust county, it is obvious to the residents that the money he collected did not go into those uh pockets. This is where i live, go. I have a small kitchen, the toilets and the bathrooms. Its small, but its enough for me to use. This is my bedroom. Nice for its not because im pull that my mattress is on the ground. Its because i tend to roll out of bed and hit my head on the floor. So i prefer being closer to the ground. And i see is all the needles which i think some people think i kind of for the bed, but thats not, it was almost right. We franciscans live very much by the much ozy. Cool, but not miserable. No. Lets all stand up. The in the yesterday. Shes in 1st grade since last year she went to a kindergarten close by that. But now shes going to school yesterday and that is quinn, i guess human. Well yeah, yeah. When im away, the kids will stay with my sister in law, and my mom on the 2 of them will take care of them for me. Good income, what im plus on the young, see you as soon as im for myself. Okay. It will be very difficult because ive never been away from my daughter at all. Then the only that moves in the illinois was kind, im only doing this to give all 3 of them of the future that for k to see if the can even if to will have to stay here and focus calling never abandoned them like their father dental relation for them, because if it is not for having to leave them behind you for because theyre still so small and course you must continue coming to School Every Day unless we have a note from your parents and left a new. Oh no i havent. Weve lost a significant number of students, not just here, but all over the region and all over the country is very important that the, or the migration is really affecting us too. For there are fewer and fewer students every year. In number 3 corner at the moment for last year we had 70 School Children from barbara. I know. So we were able to employ more teachers done the same, but then ill be on the highest off. Now were down to 42. 00 children already coming from board and by the for the meals. Most of the children have emigrated to the usa with their parents goals. Im of the Us Government recently decided to allow parents accompanying their under age children and across the board, or go ahead. I dont think so now the children are effectively being used as visas movies. Yeah, that is because many parents to take their children out of school and bring them along for the risky journey. Like thats whats been happening to our children lately. Yeah, look up a solid waste department. The, despite being less affected by the gang violence, elantra is also seeing a wave of migration. To bad to understand is we have to take a closer look at the region decided by the salvador quite to my line and 100, all have a serious game problems. Studies beginnings, when they caught in the lunch, all know i exist even a lunch so we dont have any of that. They need the street gangs from the coast around san petra. So what we have tried to set up shop here. Product is that spot for various reasons. They havent been able to gain any full thing or so no kind of look at either ways to provide us as in the lunch line to get us out in the morning. Thank god, we dont have that problem in a lunch. Will it some, this is a region where Everybody Knows everybodys thoughts and its a strange arrives here and tries that stuff going on. So they are either quickly sent back to where they came from. But the, or straight into the after life, or know if i to him, but i dont there be no, if i jump on another one, since those are thats why were better protected against the gang. So i mean guy be, i dont know if hes worse in san pedro sula. Okay, and there people get ross because they dont know each other. Its more complicated. Theyre the bleak prospect. So one of the main reason was for the emigration of so many orlando residents, especially in the country side. And they were more than 1000 meters above sea level. When im at the door here, weve just finished our coffee, harvest, slattery suddenly several joined us. Almost. Thatd be non, dont i bought the coffee . It was a little bit of that. And of when we bought, honestly, this years harvest was very good for us. But we had real problems finding enough workers because he knows. Yeah, yeah, thats all. And then im, i know the old id say is this guys a boy, there is a shortage of workers like, but the main reason is that most of the young people who are usually working in the fields have emigrated, say one though they meet on, but uh, but uh they go to the United States and the local k thinking that will be the solution to all their problems. And thats what is your problem us its been am okay, i what i like best. What now, what days we and there are good Job Opportunities here as well. When i see theyre working and went to and i think that will slow down the emigration a bit. I then both part of the program i let me get, i feel the key the most of us to pull from is focus on the simpler crops, mainly growing cooling and beans. Okay, and look at mazda, but those hobbits and stuff basically, with nothing special in it. So, but im looking in body this store la la la, right, home city or the last thing i try to grow was beans and build up on a sale. I looked at the thought i had to invest for 100 euros in my blogs. Theyre like going to see the mainland feed us for a sample or just input that one will see him. But of course, as a farmer, you assume that you will make a profit on the how this goes on, but i didnt own anything from my veins. On the contrary like that, its ok. So i only got 120 years back out of my 4000 investment. Right. And ive tried twice now at all, but i couldnt make a profit 8 the time. You know, because i dont know what i would say. I love my country and im happy here, but can somebody who saw so for i guess i will have to try the title. Well, see what that meant. They must say what else he bought in a lot that said, always the, the new and the communities course, im afraid that they will send us back because were all making a great sacrifice by deciding to leave or the dream of a Better Future for my child. When i want her to finally be able to walk normally be as opposed to almost up at a doctor told me that with surgery, she has a 90 percent chance of being able to use her legs normally to the what is the diagnosis and then she has moderate Cerebral Palsy center, then its left all of her left side paralyze on that particular day. Then cindy restore silverado, but im excited about it. Im the with getting people to see my oldest daughter also knew how to get it didnt get out. And then if i dont really want to give her up or any of them, they had all, they only need me at the one with special needs more than the others. Will say. As i said, the seo but the moment that youll love, i can understand her gestures and facial expression. One was only for she signals with her eyes when she is thirsty, are hungry and without me, her life would be much harder. Save must basis, then m. C, then get it the new of course, she wants to help her daughter no later on, but theres no guarantee that youll make it you get in. And one possibility is that the girls will lose their mother along the way for us to allow me. Okay, ive seen body, its gone. I mean, yeah, i see, i see sitting out here in the girl and not knowing what dangers lie ahead look inside like we cant stop or then we also dont have the resources to give her the help she needs to hear when the left way more than that but the model may have, but i would say like a, this like a, im how you doing the need to be true, but that doesnt mean residents are safe from the finance. Those trying to get to the us in search of a better life may encounter great danger along the way. Daniel santos is 2 brothers set out for the us some time ago. No one had heard from them since until one day, when the phone rang we received voice messages. Who youre living with you. You wont see your sons again until you pay. 3500. 00 isnt enough and you havent even deposited that much of it. The minimum would be half price, you know, they push it down to a 1000 dollars age. Meaning more than a 100. 500. 00 wont get you anywhere. Put me going to get into the mid it cario point. Show me the kidnappers 1st demanded 8000. 00. A lot of so how do i then they went down to 2000 t lot, hampton withdrawal, to have friends and acquaintances pulls us as much money together as they could and hold the items. But how are we going to find that kind of money . And then at the level, we live from hand to mouth toilet and mostly eat rice and beans. The most important me by making a collection in the neighboring villages, could we finally manage to get the full 2000 but the kidnapped us had demanded. And the lot of skill state of the city and the 2 of them had been planning to leave for a long time too. But i was against it, but they went any way. Are you serious . But i dont know what the, what went through. It was just said a hold on when i went home and all i could do was cry. A lot of i didnt know where we were going to get such an amount today a lot. But when my friends found out about the situation, i but they started scraping together the money to save my brothers of about button to panel formula. They thank god the kidnap is no. The grandson no, not important. Otherwise, wed never have made it to give out of how much stuff. What did i let him talk . Tell brothers this course. I can say that ive no doing that, but you know not yet doing that. I cant wait to hear from them all, but i still have no word about my case, but do you think theyll return home for one . Okay, no me 0 maintenance. God will lead them back to me with the help of god. Theyll make an fabulous little by his eradicate that way. Okay, if i havent been happy since the day they left degrees, it was especially bad and they were in captivity. Look decent. Its just also. So let me ask you a 3 system. Its good, but im with somebody. Im looking for a bad time. I dont know that its not easy and thats bad. So you know, doesnt disciplinary, just a lot of them. They are risking their lives. No, no, its unwise. And i think you should return home if you count and make it across the board or not. That was we so loosely on this because the, the town of rosario, with 5000 inhabitants, depends on moneys and from the us as i said. And im going to keep those audio prophets a lot from these remittances, incomplete, waiting for a time to play, increase the quality of life for our residency. And it helps to further develop our town. But i missed appointment early of the place, the ones on hand to load, i got a sense of the emigrants that helped their home towns by sending money back to make life a little better for their reality. The misled b. C. I mean, what im doing is to florida a guide and the money arriving and helps to improve the infrastructure in every way. Im. It will also be the and its also used to repair peoples homes for money and raise the general quality of life in town. In my area, most of the construction right now is bonded with money from relatives abroad as many rosario residents trying to emigrate to the United States, but ended up in the hands of mexican kidnappers condos. Reyes is one of them. To have told me i was kidnapped on my way to the us as to and i get it happen then, right. Know so the i mean where i was waiting for a few days to be able to cross the river for cooling s k. Then i had my son with me last time with him on the waiting in a shed and from the we were both kidnapped. And they grabbed us and demanded a ransom for our freedom. You know what they bought for me like 4000. 00 a shot with the 1st um, with the more our family was certain that they both get till the ransom that the kidnappers demanded was way too high. And we didnt have 8000. 00. I mean, it was a really tough time for us mental mental, it was a terrible experience, a disease. Its still painful to think back on what we have to go through. Its really a moment to maybe talk to then going to the golf cartel, j. They can natalie, belinda, man, lodge francis from that family size of a lot of the nothing. What does he do . The people in town began to raise some money. Wouldnt be able to people who would we walk from village to village collecting donations. So is that the middle so hes probably gone a lot of help from neighbors and friends funding. How did they threaten use . Single single they said theyd kill us if that families didnt pay out. Now we would side up and threaten type guns and machetes. And how did they treat you so much . And after that, ive been very badly at the weight. They intimidated me and threatened to hurt me if i didnt keep silent. And i can see they stopped me for a week and didnt even give me the water within the walls, get the hungry so, you know, as you know, just where you are alone. Not they were of the boy that he and i was kept in 3 different places and they had more than 150 prison is sort of way. The kidnap is and brag about having even more hide outs and people in captivity. You know, the police are in on it to getting into the for every prisoner, thats all the cato pay, the police 500. 00. Its a business for the police as well. Yeah. You have someone to enable us to say you couldnt go to the police simple. No, maam, no, we were hiding from them all that stuff, especially the state police the so theres quest, how was it to return home after that . No, no, no, it was extremely happy. Okay. Even though it didnt reach my destination, i at least laid hold on one of these. He wont be there on the mean. It was a happy day when my son and grandson returned difficult and i thank god for returning them to us for coming to was up in america and the 9th. And i just hope you wont try again. So for you havent gone through such terrible things and p and a couple of maybe with time it will become safer on the kidnappings will stop. Its awesome that he could give it another try on. Although hes saying and wont leave again, settled most and only god can tell us the future. Only god knows if he will eventually make it to the us in plan, but i dont see him play all know youll have decided when that is that with us on doing when he returned after all of this again and i will be in the gallery and then he was in mesa and a terrible stay and just couple unless he and his son both had to get ivy therapy because they didnt eat it all, had gone only was very weak and had no appetite. Seeing how about yourself, but for a mental distress. Free. Yes, he is. Hold on. He just kept crying all the time. Yeah. That the full okay. Possible the, the stories of carlos reyes and the brothers of Daniel Santos could be sent to have a happy ending. Unfortunately, thats not how all of them turn out. But anyway, i kind of wouldnt hurricane at yahoo. My son lost everything in as a result he said mama, i cant stay here anymore. I have nothing left with us. So im heading north midway, but im not the most in buffalo and you sent me money, but he kept in touch with us during his month long journey and the yeah. And he made it to mccallum and texas somebody and, and said that now the dangerous part was done. You know, he had crossed the river on the border of the desert capitalism and was totally exhausted from the effort of a thought. I yeah, i that i missed the 1st day as low as the this is the last picture he sent as theres that for that would be more if we got it on the 16th of july and a for the day he was eating and told us that the danger possible would be ok, any of us out to infinity. Cs i for the last time we heard from him. If we see its hard to my home i 2nd, we posted his photo on social media because we have no other way to look for him. Only, its the only channel available to us. Lets maybe someone sees the photo and know something in the say i was maybe someone has seen him or heard from his. I mean be anything. Ill say article a look at, lets see. So far weve only received messages, demanding around 40000000000. 00 building at the end of the in dollars. How much did they want or to means on 8000. 00. In some cases, even 15000 or 20000 in 1004, they send a fake photos where his head has been photo shopped onto another body. I will send out the window open with the miller. In some, he has a knife to his throat, to the photos are accompanied by a message that he will die if we dont pay in the casino. So there might be almost the same thing. I dont know why my best youll come on as the i just want to know if my son is dead, him with to just to know that they can go on living with us on certain team at the end, including the visa and choose the story has just begun to anytime old towel, how johnny ponds arent able to get the toyota is demand 7500. 00 for getting me and my daughter across. So she is 7500 from here, San Francisco del, a pass to the us us. Thats published. Yes. All the way to the us. This though me see, or i go to you have a guarantee sooner you know sign in the flattery and lose it because you already was very clear about that. Even if i dont make it across the border, i wont get any money back. Then the money is simply locked out to that of you. So you will not be making a journey at your own risk. Yes. But then in the pursuit, im going to set them up on this move to lip spends the piece of lending assessing. So they know thoughts protection without cutting down local mangrove for is a big change for us on the national park. And the people of the people is at the last few minutes, africa on dw, the really used to be 1st page researchers and scientists all over the world for you know, race against time. They are peers and rivals with one daring goals to help smart nature. The more likes to watch now on youtube Dw Documentary the this is dw news, lloyd from berlin. Tonight. 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