Unwanted tourists

摘要

For better and for worse, Honduras's Atlantic coast has long enjoyed a reputation as being at the raffish end of the Caribbean experience. After all, it is cheap and cheerful, a diver's paradise, and home to the famous black Garifuna culture. And for those same reasons, as well as for its hundreds of miles of often uninhabited coastline, it also attracts more than its fair share of smugglers, drug-traffickers and sundry other outlaws. Not for nothing did Paul Theroux set his novel of madness in the jungle, "The Mosquito Coast", here.