The Landing Strip
Big Story
•
56m
It’s one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and a hotbed for the international drug trade. With eight percent of the drugs that come into the United States passing through its borders, the mark left on Honduras is dark, and plagued with destruction. Here, traffickers control a trade so powerful that unsuspecting citizens are often faced with choosing between a bullet, a bribe, or a last resort: making the treacherous journey north, in mass migrations into the United States.
Up Next in Big Story
-
The Lost Children of Tunisia
The small coastal North African nation that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring is becoming the latest casualty in global terrorism. A longtime hotbed for ISIL recruitment, the U.N. estimates Tunisia has the highest per capita rate of foreign ISIL fighters of any nation in the world. But even a...
-
The New Silk Road Part 1
At the turn of the century, China embarked on a development plan that saw the country’s economy explode to 60 times its original size in just 40 years. By focusing on infrastructure and mobility, China changed its destiny and is now looking to the Belt and Road Initiative to share these lessons w...
-
The New Silk Road Part 2: Into Africa
"Into Africa" shows the impact the Belt and Road Initiative is having on the world’s second most populous continent. With an ongoing population boom, Africa sits at a crossroads between potential prosperity or further scarcity. The second installment of "The New Silk Road" looks at how Kenya is b...
