Honduras, located in northern Central America, is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, the Gulf of Fonseca in the Pacific Ocean to the south, Nicaragua and El Salvador to the east and south, and Guatemala to the west. The country is divided into 18 provinces, with the capital in Tegucigalpa, the main language is Spanish, the Catholic faith, an area of 112,500 square kilometers, and a population of 10,117,000.
Since its independence in 1821 and 1978, Honduras has had 139 coups, one of the most frequent coups in Latin America. At the end of the 19th century, American capital entered Honduras, turning it into a huge "banana plantation", and over time, Honduras became a country that relied on imports for everything except bananas.
Honduras is a country with extremely poor security, the country has the lowest security index in the world, the drug problem is serious, homicides occur frequently in the country, and the number of serious crimes in Honduras is as high as more than 5,000 in one year. Honduras has become like this, mainly because of the incompetence of the government, the corruption of officials and the collusion of drug lords to harm the people, in such an environment, the government without the people is separated, and the law is nothing.
Honduras has an average of 20 murders a day, even in crowds, and other cases are frequent, with many people disappearing every day for no reason, criminals too many to fit in prison, the human development index is as low as 0.632, and its per capita GDP is only $2,829.
Although it is a time of peace, you can see here what the wartime era was like, killing people in Honduras is as common as killing fish, and in Honduras, it is not a convenience store or nightclub on the street but a funeral parlor that is open all day.
Every year, a large number of people illegally immigrate from Honduras to the United States, and in January this year, Honduran people planned to take advantage of the new US President Biden to enter the United States and organized the so-called "immigration caravan".
Honduras is one of the least developed countries in Latin America. Agriculture is the leading industry of the national economy, and the industrial base is relatively weak. In 2021, the GDP was 28.489 billion US dollars, the per capita GDP was 2831 US dollars, and the GDP growth rate was 12.5%.
As a lawless country, Honduras' unique cultural customs are also very vulgar and bizarre, that is, "selling daughters-in-law".
In some backward villages and towns in northwestern Honduras, men can "leave" their wives and take them to the town bazaars for auction or exchange them for other people's wives. The wife who is bought can be auctioned again after a while.
This somewhat frightening folklore is also a Mayan legacy. The Maya killed all captured male captives and sacrificed to the gods, while women could be used as wives or exchanged. The government is helpless about this deep-rooted practice. Nowadays, according to the law, such transactions can only be held in the prescribed "human gathering", and the fair can only be held every 3 months.
The existing army in Honduras has about 12,000 men, and in 1995 it was converted to a volunteer system.
Honduras' agriculture mainly produces coffee, and its ability to produce coffee is no less than Nicaragua, a coffee-producing country, and it is the world's top ten coffee exporter. There are 280,000 hectares of coffee plantations in Honduras, mostly small coffee merchants, most of whom are less than 3.5 hectares, accounting for 60% of the country's production. In coffee gardens, coffee beans are collected by hand, carefully solved and processed to meet the different tastes of consumers according to the needs of the market.
Honduras, a country that no one dares to visit, but there is a unique beauty there, one of the world's top ten geological wonders - the Great Blue Cave of Honduras.
The Great Blue Cave is the largest underwater cave in the world, located about 96.5 kilometers off Belize, adjacent to Lighthouse Reef. The Great Blue Cave has a circular appearance, with a diameter of about 304 meters and a depth of about 145 meters. The Great Blue Cave is a limestone cave formed during the ice age when the sea level was low, and later the roof collapsed due to the rise of the sea, and it became an underwater cave. Due to the depth of the water of up to 145 meters, it has a dark blue color.
If you are bold, you can go to Honduras to try your courage, in Honduras can definitely let you know how important peace is, and you can truly understand the saying "troubled people are not as good as prosperous dogs".