‘He paved a cocaine superhighway’: ex-Honduran president convicted in New York trafficking trial
Juan Orlando Hernández, 55, once a US ally in the ‘war on drugs’, found guilty on three counts and faces 40 years in prison The...
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Ex-Honduran leader praised by Trump faces trial in US for running ‘narco-state’
Juan Orlando Hernández stands trial in a New York courtroom on Monday accused of taking millions in bribes from drug traffickers Five years after he...
Honduras: arrest warrant issued over murder of activist Berta Cáceres
Indigenous and environmental leader was shot in 2016 after campaigning to stop construction of an internationally financed dam Authorities in Honduras have issued an arrest...
Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire
Armed people went into rival gang’s cell block, opened fire and doused survivors in flammable liquid, officer says after 46 killed Gang members at a...
‘Monstrous murder’: 41 women killed in Honduras prison riot
Some women were burned to death in uprising blamed on crackdown on illicit activities inside of the country’s prisons At least 41 women have been...
Unaccompanied Honduran teen dies in US custody as Title 42 expires
Investigators trying to determine cause for teen’s death, which occurred in a Florida shelter on Wednesday An unaccompanied 17-year-old migrant from Honduras died in a...
Honduras says there is ‘only one China’ as it officially cuts ties with Taiwan
Honduras becomes the ninth diplomatic ally that Taipei has lost to Beijing since pro-independence president Tsai Ing-wen first took office Honduras has cut diplomatic ties...
Honduras to switch ties from Taiwan to China, says president
Xiomara Castro’s move would leave Taiwan with formal diplomatic relations with only 13 countries The Honduras president, Xiomara Castro, has said she has instructed her...
Honduran feminist activists disappointed by first female president
Xiomara Castro has not yet fulfilled her promise to legalise emergency contraceptives and to address violence against women At her inauguration earlier this year, Xiomara...
Hurricane Julia: Nicaragua braces amid flash flood and mudslide warnings
Nicaraguan soldiers assist evacuations as up to 38cm of rain forecast across Central America after tropical storm strengthened into hurricane Hurricane Julia swept by just...
