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In this Jan. 31, 2019, photo, jailed men identified by authorities as gang members from the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, sit in handcuffs as they are transferred to the Zacatras high-security prison in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) **FILE**

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Police and paramedics gather around a vehicle where the body of an unidentified man lies inside, after he died on his way to the hospital after suffering stab wounds in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. San Pedro Sula was the world's most murderous city four years straight from 2011 to 2014, and the country's nation-wide murder rate in 2018 was 41 per 100,000, one of the highest on the planet. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

Violence, poverty reign in Honduran city where caravans form

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Soccer helps some young Hondurans to avoid gangs

By ALBERTO ARCE - Associated Press

MS-13 gang seeks to unite nationwide