US-made guns are ripping Central America apart and driving migration north | Ioan Grillo
by Ioan Grillo from on (#5GNQ7)
An iron river of illegal guns flows from the US to Mexico, Central America, and across the hemisphere
The stray bullet from the gang fight struck Katery Ramos when she was 12 years old, playing on the dirt street in the poor Planeta neighbourhood of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. I was standing up for a moment, afterwards I fell," she told me, sitting with her mother in a scrubby field near her home.
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