ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE: Social media like Facebook and Skype are changing, and in some cases accelerating, the decades-old northward migration of Central Americans, US and Honduran officials said, by providing crowd-sourced information on the risks and rewards of making the journey. — Reuters
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras/WASHINGTON: When Alan Villeda began smuggling people from Honduras to the United States in 1998, he could only communicate with customers via patchy phone calls. These days, he is a word-of-mouth success and new clients seek him out on Facebook.
Social media like Facebook and Skype are changing, and in some cases accelerating, the decades-old northward migration of Central Americans, US and Honduran officials said, by providing crowd-sourced information on the risks and rewards of making the journey.
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