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José Rodriguez, 35, is from the infamously violent neighbourhood of Rivera Hernández in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
"It's dangerous there. I came, above all, because it is dangerous. I had a business, selling clothes and then gangsters began to extort me for money, they threatened me and my family. I take the threats seriously, becuase so many people have been killed by them, and because the Police can't do anything to stop them. I have been to the Police about it, but they can't do anything. I could be killed in my own house. Since I have arrived here, my cousin was killed in a massacre. I think that if I hadn't come here, if I wasn't here, I could have been killed there too. God knows. I have asked for asylum, because I can't go back, but I've been sent to Mexico. I've escaped being kidnapped, I'm sleeping in the street, I wash in the river. But, good people come, with food and support. If it wasn't for them, it'd be a lot worse, we don't know what would happen. Thank God, for them."
