Not sure we needed this level of protection at an archaeological site

Bilson Get Your Gun

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October 10th 2005
Guns. OK, they've been part of everyday life since and including America, but Honduras...they seem to take them a whole lot more seriously here. We had to change some dollars into lempiras and chose one of the main banks on the central square of Santa Rosa de Copan, our first stop. We enter the bank past four guards, each with a shotgun and handgun - neither was holstered - and join the queue b ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Honduras

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Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a ha... ... read more