Four people died and as many wounded in a raid were drug traffickers, they were humble and honest citizens, said yesterday the deputy Thank God Grawell Maylo Wood, and the mayor of Ahuas, Lucio Baquedano. The incident occurred last Friday morning when a helicopter with U.S. and Honduran police opened fire on a boat on […]
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As a result of the violence generated mainly by organized crime and drug trafficking, one in 50 young Central Americans under age 20 will die before they killed 32, according to the UN. The homicide rate in the region, the largest in the world, is 400 times higher than the average in countries with low […]
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The Mexican Navy seized at the port of Lazaro Cardenas, a shipment from China with 136 tonnes of precursor chemicals used to manufacture synthetic drugs, and bound for Honduras, officials said. The Secretary of Navy of Mexico (Semar) said in a statement that the substances were found in 1,748 barrels within seven containers of the […]
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The Honduran journalist Alfredo Rivera Villatoro, who works at HRN, one of the nation’s largest radio stations, was abducted at dawn Wednesday when he addressed his work, infomaron peers and the police. “We want to formalize this information in this house radio: this morning on his way to his house to fulfill their duties (…), […]
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According to business leaders in Honduras, the call centers are the largest employers in 2012. 1.1 million below the minimum Latest figures from the INE-May 2011 – show that 7.8% are unemployed as a whole , ie 143.783 Hondurans. The biggest problem of the labor market in the country remains under-employment. According Felícito Ávila, Minister […]
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Wittweno Volker became trapped in sea cave on the island of Utila.A German tourist died while diving in a cave on the island of Utila. At the time of his death was diving with his wife and two friends. The victim was identified by German police authorities last Thursday as Utila Wittweno Volker (51).The stranger […]
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Following the announcement late last year want to buy guns from the U.S. and Israel, military units have started using the IWI MTAR 21. The Presidential and Presidential Honor Guard (GHP) are the first military units to receive the equipment. It also expected the arrival of assault rifles made in Israel, the type Micro Tavor […]
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Honduras Central American country is the largest contributor in the world for the enrichment of the vocabulary for the Royal Spanish Language Academy, said Monday the ambassador of Spain, Luis de los Rios Belzuz. Capital’s schoolchildren read the book “Don Quixote” in Language Day. “Honduras is the largest contributor to the lexicon, the vocabulary of […]
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Each year, more than 3,000 Hondurans expire with firearms, according to the Observatory of Violence. And while criminals acquire their “bombs” in the black market, between eight and nine thousand weapons are purchased annually in the Armory by citizens who seek to defend his life. Every year from 8000 to 9000 weapons are acquired by […]
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Some 10,000 Honduran workers protested Thursday in different cities against the high cost of living and the rapid increase of fuel prices, which has reached record highs. In the capital, Tegucigalpa, teachers and students left the University of Education and traveled 6 kilometers to the center of the city wielding banners and signs, chanting slogans […]
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Honduras is just days away from approving an extremist law that would put women in prison for using the morning-after pill, even after being raped! We can stop this law and give women back the chance to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Some Congress members agree that this law – which would also jail doctors or anyone […]
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Honduras is a tropical country with more than 70% of its population living at risk of beinginfected with either Plasmodium vivax or Plasmodium falciparum. Laboratory diagnosis is avery important factor for adequate treatment and management of malaria. In Honduras,malaria is diagnosed by both, microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests and to date, no molecularmethods have been […]
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Several thousand farmworkers occupied 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land across Honduras as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government, activists and officials said Wednesday. Police and soldiers read an eviction notice later in the day and roughly 1,500 farmworkers peacefully left a large sugar plantation near San Pedro Sula. But at […]
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Three additional murders in agribusiness in Honduras Three employees of a large agribusiness company were killed Thursday afternoon in the valley of Aguán, in northeastern Honduras, which already account for 50 deaths in the context of conflict over land in that area of the country, officials said. A brief news report revealed that police “Denis […]
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Honduras lost their last fiscal year, 3.000 billion and 15,000 jobs by not approving the Mining Act, upheld the President of the National Association of Mineworkers (Anamin), Santos Gabino Carbajal. Gold mining in the country increased 16.7 percent during the previous year. Currently, the country exported $ 300 million, only three companies have been operating […]
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Bad weather conditions prevented Honduras Tucano aircraft to track down the twin-engine Beechcraft plane that went on 18 March hangars Horizontal Aviation company in Bogota, which was reported as suspicious by the Colombian Air Force ( FAC). The director of the Aerocivil, Santiago Castro, said that since it is an issue of drug it is […]
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Honduran authorities must urgently tackle chronic problems in their prisons, Amnesty International said after at least 13 inmates were killed in the latest tragedy to hit the country’s troubled jails. The prisoners died during unrest in San Pedro Sula prison after fighting broke out and a fire started inside the overcrowded jail on Thursday. The […]
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“On April 9, will travel to Havana to sign that treaty,” said Foreign Minister referring to the agreement to delimit the maritime borders of the countries in the Caribbean. The negotiations to delimit the maritime boundary are several decades and had announced the signing during the administration of President Manuel Zelaya, deposed in a coup […]
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) today called for an international fact finding mission in Honduras after the murder of journalist Fausto Flores Valley, bringing to 19 the number of violent deaths among informants from the coup of 2009. In recent years, journalists have been victims of crime and censorship. The organization advocating freedom of the press […]
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One journalist was hacked to death, which reach 21 media workers killed violently in Honduras since 2003, journalistic and humanitarian sources. The victim is Fausto Flores Valle, who worked in radio Alegre, Sabá, a city in eastern province of Colon, local radio reported. According to police, Flores Valley discussed with another person in the street […]
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Tocoa, Colón. Health officials in the department of Colón met with representatives of epidemiology at the Ministry of Health, to evaluate the growth of malaria cases. Map of the incidence of malaria in Columbus. According to authorities, the most affected sites are Sonaguera, Sheba, Tocoa, Trujillo and Santa Fe In these five cities is where […]
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Despite persistent reports of serious corruption and human rights abuses by the Honduran army and police, the Pentagon increased its contract spending in Honduras to $53.8 million in Fiscal Year 2011, up by 71% from the previous year. President Obama’s budget also proposes increased assistance to the Honduran military in the 2013 foreign aid budget […]
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The telephone record established in Decree 243 – 2011 of the Special Law on Involvement of Private Communications, or wiretaps, approved by Congress, does not mean that the user has the portability and make the number of proprietary, authorities explained today the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel). If now a person wanted to move from operating […]
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Mexico’s Calderón Javier Paz Walter died in the fire in the prison of Comayagua in Honduras , which has left at least 355 fatalities .As published several Azteca Mexican media, such as News, and The Daily Excelsior, Mexico’s died in the conflagration that allegedly began after an inmate set fire to his mattress. Read Article
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At least about 272 inmates died in a fire in a prison in central Honduras, officials said. The incident occurred in Comayagua Prison Farm, located 90 km north of Tegucigalpa. El flagelo comenzó a las 22:55 locales del martes (04:55 GMT del miércoles). The scourge began at 22:55 local on Tuesday (04:55 GMT Wednesday). Read […]
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The narcoavioneta was incinerated in Brus Laguna. Brus Laguna, Honduras A small plane found abandoned in the La Mosquitia, thank God, was destroyed yesterday by members of the Naval Forces of Honduras and the Directorate for the Fight against Drug Trafficking, DLCN. A source revealed that when the move was made to move the plane […]
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Deputy Health Minister, Javier Pastor, announced that Honduras will impose an epidemiological fence border areas with Nicaragua and El Salvador by the increase of rotavirus in those countries. Shepherd explained that the decision taken by the reports of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) which show an increase of cases of rotavirus in El Salvador […]
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As part of the shares of joint programming among different sectors of government, the Ministry of Education of Honduras has been included on the ballot for school enrollment indicators that provide information on the situation of children and Working Girls. This small change is a major step in the fight against child labor in the […]
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Residents of the village of Matthew reported the discovery of many skeletons of mares and horses would be sold as beef markets in the capital. According to police reports from a couple of days have been denouncing the horse butchered by a gang dedicated to stealing cattle and then sell the meat in a clandestine […]
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The border with Guatemala is still closed. This action came into force by an outbreak of foot-and pork. Its purpose is not even planned for this year. However, not all bad news. Given this panorama, its neighbor Honduras is anticipating a growth of 12 percent in its pork industry in 2012. Mario Verdial, producer of […]
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Seven out of ten women are raped But if something really irritates you is to talk about migrant women, the most vulnerable, the most unprotected: “It’s rare that is saved from being raped,” says circumspect. I ask what data you have. I look and reflect. That it is difficult to get reliable statistics because women […]
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Inhabitants of the Bay Islands urge the authorities of the Special Prosecutor for Ethnic and Cultural Heritage to investigate people who perform from the previous month, probably, extraction of archaeological artifacts from a Spanish galleon submerged in the Caribbean Sea. The news Teleprensa Roatan Channel 27 reported in the last days of the galleon objects […]
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The knowledge acquired in school lounge have been captured on a website through which it seeks to identify areas of highest incidence of crime in the country. The proposal has arisen on the initiative of two young students of the race computer Regional University Center of the Pacific Coast (CURLP). “Our only desire is to […]
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Three months ago Danlí Correctional Facility does not receive state financial outlay must receive each month. Lack of funds has forced prison officials to postpone payment of providers, who now refuse to continue the credit. Ramon Garcia, director of the prison, said the current debt is 600,000 lempiras. Read Article
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The Air Forces of Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras made “multinational exercise” aimed at controlling drug trafficking through the Caribbean, an official source said today. Colombia’s Air Force (FAC) indicated that the exercises, which began last December 16 and will end tomorrow, Wednesday, aims to “close the airspace of the Caribbean Sea to the flights of […]
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Honduras will have the highest rates for departures from airports in Central America, with a payment of 60.30 dollars, according to a new law passed by Parliament this week in Honduras. Payment for departures from airports in Honduras will be reflected in the cost of the ticket. A company spokesman International Airports, the concessionaire of […]
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Two officers assigned to the Honduran Air Force (HAF) were arrested by the police while drunk with guns threaten a citizen in an American neighborhood gas station, authorities said.The incident occurred on Thursday night. The detainees are aviation lieutenant, René Reyes Alfonso Romero (25) and Osmin Morales Neptalí Nufio (28). The spokesman of the Ministry […]
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BEWARE OF CERTIFIED CHECKS FOR PAYMENT This story tells of a real case. They have changed names and some details have been omitted. THE COMPLAINT. The woman, a woman of small stature, plump, white, freckled cheeks and stained by the sun, sat in front of the detective Financial Crimes Section National Directorate of Criminal Investigation […]
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After the return of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS), international areas and is no longer spoken in that country, under the assumption that it would be an ongoing standardization process, when in reality the situation of rape human rights is even worse than under the coup. However, no mechanism has been set-up. […]
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Guatemalan President-elect Otto Perez Molina told Mexican newspaper El Universal on Nov. 9 that he plans to engage drug cartels in a “full frontal assault” when he takes office in 2012. The former general said he will use Guatemala’s elite military forces, known as Los Kaibiles, to take on the drug cartels in a strategy […]
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The heavy rains this year have left Central America for a loss $ 172 million and more than 1.6 million people affected, putting in “grave risk” food security, said today the humanitarian organization Oxfam. The international NGO said in a statement that Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Honduras are the countries most affected. The […]
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The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) has been estimated at 3.879 million lempiras (148 million) losses caused by rains last October in Honduras, which left a total of 29 dead and more than 60,000 affected. The ECLAC representative, Ricardo Zapata, met with the Minister of the Presidency, Guillen Marie Antoinette to the joint submission […]
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Armed groups belonging to organized crime and drug trafficking, have threatened to attack the facilities of the National Penitentiary Marco Aurelio Soto (PNMAS) to try to free his cronies who are imprisoned in the jail, said yesterday the center’s director, Marvin Rajo. The police and military who protect modules are very high security alerts about […]
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Lepaterique Honduran Francisco Morazan .- Deputies toured South America and the municipality of Lepaterique, Francisco Morazán, in order to know the pilot gardens promoted from the previous year, the liberal lawmaker, Yadira Bendaña. The deputies were able to see the production of kitchen gardens. The project is funded by the National Congress, with a total […]
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The authorities of the Ministry of Health on Tuesday moved a contingent of doctors and nurses to the south of the country, to make medical teams in the six shelters of Choluteca and Valle. Many people walk barefoot in areas contaminated with leptospirosis.The head of the National Anti-Dengue, Roxana Araujo, said they are not alone […]
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On October 19, health authorities warned of outbreaks of viral diseases and lack of food in Central America, while the death toll due to heavy rains, floods and landslides consequential continues to rise. The death toll has reached 97. 10 days ago, it rains non-stop, which affects hundreds of thousands of people. Authorities have reported […]
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An outbreak of malaria could be aggressive and lethal affects a sector of the population in the department of Olancho, said today Congressman Francisco Rivera. This type of malaria “plasmodium falciparum” being presented sector in the Campamento Viejo, Olancho Department, said the deputy. Read Article
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Deforestation and forest degradation suffered in Honduras, 140 are caused by causes, which historically and systematically generate millions in economic losses, environmental and socio-ecological whole society and threaten the future and sustainable development for present and future generations of Hondurans. Appointed President Samuel Reyes, Rigoberto SERNA Minister Cuellar, ICF Minister José Trinidad Suazo Bulnes and […]
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The president of the Cocoa Producers’ Association of Honduras (APROCACAHO), Anibal Ayala, reported today that the country exported 40 tons of cocoa in Swiss factories, which generate an income of $ 1.5 million.The Honduran chocolate, highly prized for its high quality grain to be processed organically, have a gain of $ 1.16 per kilo due […]
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The National Weather Service of Honduras, SIM, reported yesterday that due to a low pressure system located north of Honduras increased rainfall across the country, as the Pacific moisture transport into the country is high. This moisture interacting with the country’s mountains form clouds that develop vertically due to the favorable conditions in the upper […]
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The authorities seized 118 parrots Honduras when they were brought illegally to El Salvador, from Nicaragua, an official source in Tegucigalpa. The birds were seized by members of the Border Police and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (SERNA), at the office of the Amatillo, border with El Salvador, two individuals from Nicaragua aboard […]
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At least 20 containers loaded with rice, apparently from the brotherly country of El Salvador, daily entering illegally in Honduras, so the authorities of the Ministry Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) and the Executive Directorate of Revenue ( DEI), demonstrated “on alert” in order to curb smuggling of the grain. It is estimated that in Honduras, […]
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Tegucigalpa, National Commissioner of Human Rights, Ramón Custodio, denounced on Monday that members of the National Police could be behind the atrocities being inflicted on taxi drivers in different parts of the capital. Custodio said that extortion is a fixed amount which must be paid within a period of 48 to 72 hours and is […]
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Cardholders in Honduras are not only exposed to cyber gangs who clone the “plastic money”, but also to employees of many commercial establishments that allowed irresponsible card payments without requiring the client to present their respective identification card. Read Article
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Medardo Flores, a radio journalist who supported former President Manuel Zelaya, was gunned down on the night of 8 September, joining the long list of journalists who have been killed since Zelaya’s ouster in a June 2009 coup. Employed by Radio Uno in San Pedro Sula, he was slain in an ambush near his home […]
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A study by the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) conducted in the first quarter of this year reveals the high numbers of orphans of HIV has resulted in 11 of the 18 departments. The findings indicate that the department of Gracias a Dios is one of the hardest hit by the orphanage because of […]
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The presidents of Honduras and Colombia this past week reinforced its cooperation agreements on security and education. The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos reiterated his counterpart Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, its support in those areas of bilateral cooperation. Wolf traveled to Colombia on Thursday for a two-hour meeting with Santos, which addressed issues of interest […]
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The United States Embassy warned the public about a new form of fraud (fraud in visa), who deceives people through email, where fraudsters send money request to a fake address using a false name in exchange for a Diversity Visa (DV) or Immigrant Visa. Any email that promises to provide the Diversity Visa also known […]
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Following the recent deaths of leaders of peasant movements, last weekend in Tocoa, security agencies deployed a special team looking for weapons Lower Aguán.The housemates Salgado, Reina Mejia, managed to leave the courtyard of his house, where was his head in the first line of barbed wire. The commander of Joint Staff of the Armed […]
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After receiving a distress call, Honduran police officers left to Mount de Los Negros where they encountered a mysterious vehicle and were later ambushed by a heavily armed group of Zetas informed La Prensa. The staged emergency has no leads on the supposed criminals, but addresses the increase of organized crime and drug manufacturing near […]
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Every day a child is killed in Honduras, one of the most violent countries in Latin America, according to an NGO report informed Entorno inteligente. In the last trimester, 76 children were killed, which is equivalent to one child per day, a number that has been almost constant since 1998. There has been more than […]
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Recently seized weapons were intended to supply drug cartels, paramilitary groups, and Zeta groups in the area of Olancho, Honduras and most weapons are said to be trafficked from Florida through the Russian mafia reported La Tribuna. The weapons are also said to travel hidden aboard trucks or other vehicles, in exchange, mafias obtain large […]
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Nery Jeremías Orellana, 26, the manager of Radio Joconguera in the town of Candelaria, in the western department of Lempira, was gunned down yesterday morning, bringing the number of Honduran journalists killed since the start of the year to three. A total of 12 journalists have been killed in the past 18 months in Honduras […]
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16 miles off the coast of Cape Gracias a Dios (The Mosquito Coast), units of the Armed Forces (Armed Forces) have custody of a submarine that contains between three and five tons of cocaine. This is the first time a submarine has been intercepted in Honduras. Read Article
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•26 narcotics traffickers in the services of Henry de Jesús López Londoño alias Mi Sangre have been captured. •The captures were part of Operación Tormenta (Operation Storm) which the Colombian Police performed with the DEA. •According to El Tiempo, one of the traffickers, Sanmartín Giraldo, was responsible for transporting cocaine in commercial airplanes from such […]
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A group of 120 from Central America – 41 Guatemalans, 40 Hondurans and 43 Salvadorans – were taking a train from Oaxaca to Veracruz on June 24 when they were kidnapped, Prensa Libre reports. Early investigations indicate that the train was intercepted by at least 12 armed men belonging to the drug cartel Los Zetas. […]
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Did Honduras’ readmission to the Organization of American States mark the end of the sinister interlude that began with the coup d’état exactly two years ago, on 28 June 2009, and its disastrous impact on civil liberties and human rights? That was the question that the Latin America and Caribbean division of the World Association […]
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On Wednesday, the National Federation of Agriculturists and Stock-raisers of Honduras (FENAGH) criticized the government’s recent decision to import kidney beans from Ethiopia, a decision taken without consulting the FENAGH. Leopoldo Durán, the president of FENAGH, said that FENAGH will investigate the decision in collaboration with other agricultural organizations. Durán predicts that negative economic consequences […]
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The Honduran Minister of External Affairs confirmed the removal of the Honduran Consul Patricia Villamil in Chiapas, Mexico, due to concerns for Villamil’s personal safety after she received death threats by the terrorist group Los Zetas. According to El Heraldo newspaper, sources have revealed that the Mexican government is prepared to designate the consul as […]
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•In April, as armada.mil.co reports, the National Navy of Colombia and the Antinarcotics Police found 210 kilos of cocaine worth $5 million USD dissolved in 350 gallons of diesel fuel on the Honduran ship “Seven Sean”at the Las Flores sector in Barranquilla. •The fuel tested positive for alkaloid and the process of examining the net […]
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The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) lifted Honduras’ suspension to participation in the hemispheric group’s activities on June 1, 2011. The OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza reiterated during a General Assembly session on Citizen Security this week that the decision does not signify amnesty regarding human rights abuses in Honduras. […]
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he National Commissioner for Human Rights, Ramón Custodio, expressed his concern about the apparent weakness of the government of Honduras to confront organized crime. The human rights advocate urged the government to attend as a priority and effective criminal actions carried out by organized groups, regardless of the law, “exacerbate the crisis of violence in […]
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An assault on the Boulevard Morazan provoked strong police mobilization. The members of the security fell as gullible for trusting a uniform stained by crime. With a large sum of money was raised several men dressed as police who raided the cashier of a stock car on the Boulevard Morazan, leaving the balance of three […]
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Few regions on earth have a cultural richness to match the Maya World’s. In the lowlands of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and southern Mexico steamy rainforests, replete with wildlife, preserve thousands of soil-covered ruined cities built by an ancient Maya Empire that rose with the Romans and slowly declined in Europe’s Middle Ages. Read […]
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A report in the Honduran press says that the Crime Investigation Unit of Honduras is investigating the twin engine plane used in the biggest drug bust in Belize. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the murder of Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco, 35, the host of a news programme on provincial TV station Omega Visión, who died in a hospital in the northern city of San Pedro Sula yesterday from the gunshot injuries he had received the day before. Read Article
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Honduran teachers will take legal action against the Ministry of Education for the arbitrary suspension of 305 teachers who participated in protests in Feb and March. A team of lawyers will advise teachers to settle the issue in court, said Joel Almendarez leader of the Federation of Teaching Organisations of Honduras (FOMH). Read Article
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Honduras’ Supreme Court has rejected a prosecution appeal of a court ruling that dismissed the last two corruption charges against exiled president Manuel Zelaya. The court’s removes an obstacle to Zelaya’s possible return to Honduras. Read Article
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Grenades and light anti-tank weapons supplied by the United States to the Honduran Armed Forces (FAH) were seized from drug traffickers in Mexico and Colombia, revealed a cable published in Wikileaks. The document stated that the Honduran army lost several types of arms, which now coincide with the serial numbers of those retrieved from the […]
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On April 8 a German development bank, DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, cancelled a previously approved loan to Grupo Dinant, a large Honduran company that produces snacks, other food products and cooking oil; the loan was reportedly worth $20 million. Shortly afterwards, EDF Trading, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French energy firm Electricité de […]
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On April 12, 1797 a group of black Caribs are transported by British forces from San Vicente to Punta Gorda on Roatan Island, where they are abandoned. In May of that year set out in the sea and grow to become one of the most important living cultures of Honduras. Read Article
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Honduras has several airports throughout its territory divided into two groups: those categorized and approved, both controlled and supervised by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). The controls are the Tela, Utila, Guanaja, Trujillo, Puerto Lempira, Ahuas, Brus Laguna, Guampusirpe and others. Read Article
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Honduran workers will go take to the streets on April 12 to protest the high cost of living and crime, union leaders announced Friday. The Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers (CUT) called Thursday for the general strike to oppose higher prices for the basic family basket and continuing human rights violations, said Jose Luis Baquedano, […]
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Three food businesses located within the premises of Mario Rivas hospital were closed yesterday as a result of inspections conducted by staff of the Metropolitan Health Region. One of the roundabouts was closed because inside they found mouse droppings, feces clogged sewers behind the kitchen. Read Article
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Honduran experts warned the population about the damaging effects of the heat wave now underway. Forecasts indicate that the current summer will be the hottest of the past years, and temperatures in the coming days are expected to reach about 40 degrees Celsius. Read Article
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The members of the Magisterium of Honduras announced that they will resume their days of demonstrations against the privatization of education in the Central American country, after failing to reach any agreement on Thursday at the negotiating table that held behind closed doors with representatives of the Honduran Executive. Read Article
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As teachers continue to strike and protest in several of the country’s cities, a TV crew with opposition station Canal 36-Cholusat Sur said it was attacked by police while covering a protest on 25 March in Tegucigalpa in almost exactly the same way as a crew with the same station and a radio reporter were […]
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One dead, 14 injured and nine arrested Wednesday left the repression of the national teachers’ protest in Honduras, three weeks ago rejected the privatization of education in the Central American country. “Teachers, students, parents, trade unionists, farmers nationwide protested against the privatization of education,” reported teleSUR collaborator in Honduras, Regina Osorio. Read Article
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Honduran authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force by police to disperse teachers union demonstrations in Honduras and prosecute anyone found responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. Read Article
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The teachers strike in protest at the threat of privatization of education in Honduras began on Monday its fifth week in Honduras, while the Honduran government outlawed the strike and warned the protesters not to resume classes would be “suspended without pay salary. ” Read Article
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The Public Ministry (MP) is investigating a clandestine clinic in Santa Barbara, to be trafficking newborns to “export” to Guatemala, where they are used for sale or for drug trafficking. Following a complaint by a mother who reported that three months ago gave birth to a child, and that was not delivered by staff working […]
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President Porfirio Lobo Sosa reiterated late on their willingness to support the construction of a new international airport in Palmerola Air Base, Comayagua, Honduras center. The president said that advances in the study for the qualification of roads that lead there to Tegucigalpa. Read Article
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The Honduran government said Tuesday it is mulling closing its embassies in five member countries of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) — Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia. Deputy Foreign Minister Mireya Aguero said the government is also considering opening new embassies in Asia. Read Article
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A security official in Honduras says a cocaine processing lab found in a remote mountain area may have been run by Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel. Security Minister Oscar Alvarez says evidence suggests Sinaloa installed and ran the lab, though he did not elaborate. Read Article
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Two Colombians were arrested with fake passports on Wednesday morning at the airport Villeda Morales San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras. The capture was made by the Border Police, after airport authorities said inconsistencies in the documents of the two foreigners. Read Article
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Migration authorities became suspicious of eight Asians who had arrived at the airport in San Pedro Sula. They were denied entry because they could not provide an exact location where they would be staying. Their return tickets also were suspicious. Seven of the individuals were from mainland China and one was from Taiwan. Read Article
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President Alvaro Colom said in an interview published Friday in the Mexican daily El Universal that his country, Honduras and El Salvador seek to create “special combined forces” to fight Mexican drug traffickers operating in Central America. Read Article
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It’s official. Honduras has joined the long list of countries in the world to ban smoking in enclosed spaces to avoid the loss of nonsmokers. The aim is to reduce the consumption of tobacco in which each year is spent lempiras 4,500 million (238 million dollars) throughout the state, which causes the increase of poverty […]
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What advocate of free markets hasn’t, at one time or another, fantasized about running away to a desert island to start a country where economic liberty would be the law of the land? If things go according to plan, more than one such “island” may soon pop up here. Honduras calls these visionary islands “model […]
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