![]() ROSE: Yeah, with little yards all around. There's the church, and there's houses kind of. ROSE: Lagunas La Iguala - it's not a big place. And that's why Francis is planning to migrate to the United States to work and save money to help his family. They own a small finca, or coffee farm, that was badly damaged in 2020 when hurricanes hit back to back, and the family has had a hard time recovering the losses. PENALOZA: So we headed to Lagunas La Iguala to meet the Perezes. If it rains, we may not be able to get there, or if we get there, we may not be able to get back 'cause the road is going to turn to mud. And our fixer and our photographer, who were more familiar with the country than we were, were like, I don't know. There was a lot of conversation about whether we should even try to go to that village 'cause it was so far from any main road. PENALOZA: You know, heading off the road was narrow, muddy, slippery. ![]() ROSE: Yeah, cars that are barely running. PENALOZA: You see a lot of people walking along the roads or on motorcycles or. We could talk about the roads for a long time. ROSE: And then the roads - oh, my God, the roads. We got a driver, a rental car and a photographer, and we started heading up early in the morning. Then we headed to a small town called Lagunas La Iguala to visit a family there. That's near the Mayan ruins in western Honduras. But our destination was actually way up in the mountains in the Copan region. MARISA PENALOZA, BYLINE: San Pedro Sula is the second-largest city in Honduras, and it sits in the lowlands on the Caribbean side. And from the second you step off the plane, you know, you're in a different climate. And then you land in San Pedro Sula, and suddenly, it's, like, sunshine and plants everywhere, and it's humid, and it's - you know, the sun is hot on your skin. JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: My memory of landing in San Pedro Sula is that everything was really green, 'cause it was January and, you know, everything in North America is wintry and brown. To try to answer that question, they got on a plane and flew to San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in the country. But my colleagues, correspondent Joel Rose and producer Marisa Penaloza, wondered if climate change is also affecting the decisions people make about whether to leave. Migration has been on the rise in Honduras as people flee the extreme violence and poverty. I'm Ayesha Rascoe, and today we're going on a journey to Honduras. The Central American country of Honduras is experiencing all of it. Sometimes that change is felt as extreme heat and drought, and sometimes it comes as unrelenting rainfall and flooding. It's another sign of a change in climate. In fact, in early July, the Earth reached the highest temperature ever recorded. This summer's been hot - like, really scorchingly hot, not just in the U.S.
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