Honduran Drug Gangs Rule the Streets of San Francisco

[rangerrebew]

Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe, Jonathan Choe
Honduran Drug Gangs Rule the Streets of San Francisco
In the Tenderloin, the “Hondos” have cornered the fentanyl market.
 
Jun 04 2026
 
It’s 3 a.m. in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, and an all-night, drug-fueled party has been raging for hours. The sidewalks are littered with trash and human feces. Addicts huddle in the alleys, inhaling fentanyl fumes through plastic straws; others are slumped over, barely conscious. Makeshift homeless encampments line block after block.

Dealers are everywhere. On the street corners, groups of men dressed in dark hoodies and face masks sell drugs. These are the “Hondos,” migrants from Honduras who have taken over the San Francisco drug trade. Night after night, they turn the Tenderloin into a lucrative, open-air drug market.
 
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For this City Journal investigation, we spent three days and nights in the Tenderloin, talking to addicts, journalists, cops, and the dealers themselves. We discovered that the city’s progressive policies have allowed foreign drug gangs to take over an entire neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, poisoning the down-and-out and bringing Third World conditions to one of America’s wealthiest cities.

In the Tenderloin, the Hondos rule.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/tenderloin-san-francisco-drugs-gangs

[rangerrebew]

Oh, to have the good old days of the 70s in the Tenderloin with drunkards, stoned hippies, and friendly prostitutes.

[MeganC]

The Honduran Gangs are likely to do a better job of running the city than the Democrats did.

I say give them a chance. It's not like they can make it any worse.