Then criminal gangs in Honduras forced them to flee, and the US branded them illegal immigrants. One family’s story about the desperate search for a future in unforgiving times. They were each born about a year apart and immediately formed a tight bond. They looked like their father, sturdily built. The five brothers weren’t just outwardly similar, though. They played soccer together in Juventus, the local club in their hometown of Potrerillos. They married their childhood sweethearts and became fathers at a young age. They built houses on the outskirts of town and, one after the other, joined their father’s business, a bus company called Susany, named after their younger sister. In a curious way, they lived in lockstep. And in harmony, to the extent that’s possible in a country like Honduras. Then, five years ago, two things broke into their orderly life and blew it up, piece by piece: the street gang MS-13 and United States immigration policy. And another now lives in territory controlled by the drug mafia. The Díaz family’s fate is nothing unusual in Honduras. Everyone here has lost loved ones to the murderous gangs MS-13 and Barrio 18. And everyone here has sent relatives on the dangerous, 3,000-kilometer escape route to the USA.
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