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POVERTY IN HONDURAS
The lack of an official system for the attention of childhood and youth problems, and the high rates of poverty and unemployment, are direct causes of the violent environment that the country deals with, and the amazing figure of more than 100,000 youths incorporated to highly dangerous gangs.
Honduras has the highest rate of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Central America, and the fifth place in Latin America. Eighty percent of its population lives in poverty.
In this regard, Monsignor Luís Alfonso Santos, Bishop of the Western Diocese, declares “People feel poverty in a sore spot; they don’t understand political speeches anymore”.
Afterward, as to confirm the level of suffering that Hondurans experience, he stated with deep sadness: “Jesus Christ continues suffering his passion and death in these people, who are dying as a consequence of hunger and diseases”.
Monsignor Santos has enough reasons to feel this way: 34 % of Honduran children suffers chronic malnutrition and lacks opportunities to study. The uneven distribution of wealth in the nation is evidently one of the main causes of poverty. Further information on poverty in Honduras can be found at
www.ine-hn.org/sociales%20y%demograficas/pobreza.htm
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