Vying with vultures: Widespread poverty has some Hondurans living off rubbish
TEGUCIGALPA: Marlon Escoto has been rummaging through rubbish since he was 14, trying to chase off vultures while picking out pieces of plastic and fragments of metal to sell. Ravaged by drug trafficking, violent gangs, corruption, political instability and hurricanes, Honduras sees more than half its 10 million people, 59 percent, scraping by in poverty. “I … Read more