Chamelecón is a suburb of San Pedro Sula in Honduras. It tragically came to world attention on 23 December2004 when 28 people were murdered and another 28 injured while returning from the centre of San Pedro Sula by a gang opposed to the (proposed) restoration of the death penalty in Honduras. Many of the residents of this poor suburb working in the clothes factories. Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburban redirects here. ... San Pedro Sula is a city in the nation of Honduras. ... Honduras is a country in northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, in current usage, engage in illegal activities. ... Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. ...
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