The situation has caused problems for Vancouver's 20,000-member Latino population. They complain that law-abiding citizens have been harassed by police on the prowl for drug dealers. The complaints against police are increasing. Fewer than 3,000 Hondurans live in the Vancouver area, making them the smallest of the Latino groups, he said. The lure of quick drug money' Reynaldo Antonio Oseguera, the mayor of Porvenir, Honduras, leaned forward and folded his hands on the old gray metal desk before him.
Homeless children sniff glue under a bridge in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The glue costs pennies for a day's supply and many have turned to it as a way of coping with the nation's devastating poverty. Two old men sat in the shade of a tree eating lunch. Another old man mixed concrete at a nearby house. And an old man with a sweat-stained cowboy hat and a revolver tucked into the waistband of his pants guided his horse down the cobblestone street. The short, muscular horse moved slowly under the midday sun.