Onlookers stand by as friends mourn for a young man who was shot amidst what local media claimed are accusations of extortion from vendors at a market in Tegucigalpa August 26, 2014. Honduras and Nicaragua are among the most impoverished in the Americas, but Honduras is also blighted with the world's highest murder rate, at 90.4 homicides per 100,000 people, according to the United Nations, while Nicaragua's rate is just 11.3. (Photo by Jorge Cabrera/Reuters)
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