American cultural imperialism:
Latino gangbangers deported from the US to Honduras are
raising hell there.
Trained on the streets of the US, they're more violent and heavily armed than
anything in the Honduras (including the police), and go around robbing, raping
and killing indiscriminately. As the police can't match them, the invisible
hand has stepped in, and the local citizenry are forming death squads and
killing anyone that looks like a gang member (the tattoos are a dead giveaway).
Until the homeboy invasion, local gangs got by with knives or primitive
steel-pipe guns. They got drunk and maybe smoked a little grass. But that all
changed under the deportees' murderous influence. The pipe guns were replaced
with AK-47s and Uzis, and the marijuana with crack, which in San Pedro Sula
sells for only $4.25 a "rock." Now, gang members aspire to have a teardrop
tattooed on their cheek, to signify they've killed a rival. The new-look gangs
quickly began shaking down grocery shops, factory girls and bus passengers for
"taxes." They hijacked buses for drive-by shootings in rivals' neighborhoods,
and began raping local girls, some as young as six, according to San Pedro
Sula police.