Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez sits for an interview at his hotel in Washington, November 12, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran president Juan Hernandez on Sunday said his use of military forces to fight drug gangs had helped cut violence in the world's murder capital.
Hernandez said the murder rate in 2014 had fallen to 66 per 100,000 inhabitants, down from 90.4 registered by the United Nations in 2012, then the highest rate in the world.
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