Until recently, parents didn’t let their children outside in Rivera Hernández, for fear of the six gangs that controlled the sprawling neighborhood of 150,000.
The gangs enforced a 6 p. m. curfew. Bodies littered the dirt streets in the morning. The 18th Street Gang set up a checkpoint, and every entering driver was asked: Where are you from? Where are you going? Anyone with wrong answers was shot on the spot.
—“How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer,”
Sonia Nazario
Which phrases from the text contain words with strong connotations that help describe the violence in Honduras? Check all that apply.
“until recently”
“fear of gangs that controlled”
“sprawling neighborhood”
“enforced a 6 p. m. curfew”
“shot on the spot”
“bodies littered the dirt streets”
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