William Leith

Drugs, guns and blood

Its daily murder rate is 20 times that of London. On the streets of Honduras, you smell the blood, says Alberto Arce

issue 24 February 2018

  • Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World’s Deadliest Streets

    Alberto Arce

    Zed, pp. 275

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