Welcome to Home of the Brave, I'm Scott Carrier.

Last fall, when I was talking to people who come north with a caravan,

many of them said they'd fled their homes because they've been threatened by street gangs

that controlled their neighborhoods. Mothers and fathers said they had to pay a tax to the gangs or their children would be killed.

Young men, boys really, said they were given a choice, either join the gang or die.

I found these stories hard to believe. join the gang or die.

I found these stories hard to believe.

Not that I thought they were lies,

just they were hard to comprehend.

What it would be like to live in a place like that.

I'd be afraid to go out of my house.

So when I was in Honduras, I wanted to visit one of these neighborhoods.

But it turns out you can't simply walk in and start asking questions.

The gangs have the streets under constant surveillance.

Luckily, with some help, I found a guide who could take me in openly without creating havoc.

His name was Juan Carlos and Amarado, 24 years old.

He lives in a town called Chamelecon on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula.

The city in northern Honduras where the caravan began last fall, the city known in 2014 as

the murder capital of the world due to two rival gangs fighting

and killing each other over territory.

Right now we are working from the Venezuela, right? Here's the Venezuela,

America, right? And we are working,

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