Latin America looks to violence prevention for answers

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In Loiza, Puerto Rico, ask a group of several dozen adolescents if they have seen someone murdered on the street or abused at home, and virtually all will say yes. "And they all know someone who has been killed", said Alana Feldman, director of Taller Salud (Health Workshop), which works with young people there.Similar findings come from Honduras, where 27 of 40 university students reported having witnessed a murder, according to Migdonia Ayesta, who heads the Observatory on Violence, based at the National Autonomous University of Honduras in Tegucigalpa.