Since Leaving His Honduran Homeland A Decade Ago, Singer Fredy Omar Has Emerged As the Latin King of Frenchmen Street, the Xavier Cugat of Nueva Orleans

According to the Central Intelligence Agency, Honduras is not where you want to spend your next vacation. In the C.I.A.’s World Factbook 2002, Honduras is described as “one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income…”

In Hondur...