Category: Honduras
June 18, 2015 > Staff
Corruption Scandals Deepen in Honduras, Guatemala
Top Story — Corruption scandals in Honduras and Guatemala continue to grow amid protest movements calling for the ouster of both countries’ presidents. On Wednesday, Guatemalan prosecutors announced corruption claims […] Read More >
June 4, 2015 > Staff
Honduran President Admits Campaign Received Funds Linked to Corruption Scandal
Top Story — Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández admitted Wednesday that his 2013 re-election campaign received money from businesses that played a role in a major corruption scandal involving the […] Read More >
February 17, 2015 > Staff
21 Honduran Police Officers Suspended Over Suspected Drug Money Theft
Top Story — Twenty-one members of an elite police unit in Honduras — entrusted with protecting the U.S. embassy in the capital Tegucigalpa — have been suspended for allegedly stealing […] Read More >
December 16, 2014 > Nicki Fleischner
Alternatives to Detention Leave Some Honduran Immigrants in “Shackles”
NEW YORK — On an average weekday Eva, a 39-year-old woman from Honduras, never leaves a 15-block radius in the Bronx. From bringing her two children to school, to taking […] Read More >
November 20, 2014 > Staff
Missing Beauty Queen, Sister, Found Dead in Honduras
Top Story — The bodies of reigning Miss Honduras María José Alvarado, 19, and her sister Sofía, 23, were found in a riverbank grave in an area west of the […] Read More >
September 26, 2014 > Staff
Officials Make Plans to Address Migrant Crisis, Despite Tensions
Top Story – Officials from the U.S., Mexico and Central America are moving to address the unaccompanied minor crisis, but friction over the issue persists. U.S. justice officials met on […] Read More >
October 6, 2012 > Carolina Ramirez
2 Honduras Officials Receive Death Threats
Two officials in Honduras viewed as sympathizers with the county’s political left have received death threats, the local press reports. The news of the death threats against National Agrarian Institute […] Read More >
September 4, 2012 > Roque Planas
Honduras Signs Deal To Create 3 Private Cities
The government of Honduras has signed a deal to hand over land to private investors for the construction of three privately run cities with their own legal and tax systems, […] Read More >
May 18, 2012 > Staff
Honduras: Conflicting Accounts Of Fatal DEA Operation
Top Story — As protesters on the Miskito Coast of Honduras riot in the streets, U.S. officials are saying that agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration did not fire their weapons during […] Read More >
May 17, 2012 > Staff
Kidnapped Honduran Radio Journalist Found Murdered
Top Story — Honduran police have arrested a suspect in the murder of kidnapped RHN radio journalist Alfredo Villatoro, whose body was discovered in Tegucigalpa late Tuesday. Villatoro, a prominent Honduran journalist and […] Read More >