A gang controlled this Honduran barrio. Then a small NGO fought back.
We know all too much about the rich and powerful. What they think, eat, wear, even what their bathrooms look like. Five celebrities buy an amusement ride to the boundary of space for 10 minutes and we're privy to their every scream in real time. Which is unfortunate, because their experiences are far less interesting and no more important than so many of the faceless billions who eke out lives in the slums and villages that stretch across this planet. It's not only that our eyes catch the bright colors of the famous more readily but that they're much easier to access. Want to talk to Oprah? Call her PR flack. The thousands living and dying in Mumbai? Dominican drug dealers on the streets of New York City? Central Americans dodging gangs, long before their journeys north? Such people don't have representatives and their communities are far more insular, not to mention difficult to reach and sometimes violent.
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