Honduras For The Holidays, Who’s With Me?

Sometimes it takes the murder of your nation’s Miss World beauty pageant contestant to remind you what kind of crap hole you live in. Miss Honduras Maria Jose Alvarado and her sister went missing after visiting a spa last week in Santa Barbara. No, not the Santa Barbara where Oprah tries to squeeze her feet into normal human sized shoes during weekend shopping sprees. Santa Barbara, Honduras, where you only have to worry about fitting into the one-size-fits-all coroner body bags. The bodies of the dead sisters were found and the police immediately arrested the boyfriend of Miss Honduras’ sister. I’m not sure he killed the girls, but nameless boyfriends make a likely suspect and the Honduras police have a lot of fucking crime files to get closed.

Travel site Lonely Planet says Honduras has a bad boy rep but it’s filled with glorious treasures to visit. By bad boy rep I think they are referring to the fact that it’s the murder capital of the world. So sort of the way Ted Bundy was a bad boy. Every time you think your country might be headed down the shitter, I’d recommend a world news google search keyworded around the twenty nations closest to the U.S. not named Canada. Suddenly pain in the ass Ebola doctors and violent football players don’t seem like such a huge problem.

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