S20 Ep63: Bear Witness: The Pursuit Of Justice In A Violent Land w/Ross Halperin
True Crime Tuesday Presents: Bear Witness: The Pursuit Of Justice In A Violent Land with Journalist/ Author, Ross Halperin!As young men, Kurt Ver Beek, an American sociologist, and Carlos Hernández, a Honduran schoolteacher, devoted their lives to helping the poor. But it wasn’t until they moved to Nueva Suyapa— an extraordinarily dangerous neighborhood in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa—that they came to a radical conclusion: The charity world was combating poverty incorrectly.In gripping prose, journalist Ross Halperin chronicles how these two best friends became quasi vigilantes and…
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