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The US men's national team starts its quest to qualify for the World Cup today in the most violent city in the world — San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
For a brief moment this afternoon, the city will officially stop — the country declared it a national holiday — to watch a soccer game.
But after it's over, SPS has to deal with serious gang violence, drug trafficking, and police corruption.
San Pedro Sula is the second-largest city in Honduras with ~700,000 people
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There were 159 murders per 100,000 citizens in 2011 — the highest rate in the world
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Source: The Citizens Council For Public Security And Criminal Justice
So what's behind the violence?
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