Gustavo Palencia
Friday, October 21, 2016 - 07:03
Honduras' Congress on Thursday approved a law to prevent drug trafficking money being used to finance political campaigns in the poor Central American nation blighted by gang violence.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 00:00
The murder rate in Honduras (...) fell last year according to a United Nations-affiliated report released on Monday, although the number of "atrocious crimes" ticked up.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 00:00
Juan Hernandez, head of Honduras' Congress, now has 28-percent support, compared with 27 percent for 54-year-old Xiomara Castro, according to the CID Gallup poll.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 00:00
"(Drug gangs) are trying to frighten Honduran society," said Security Minister Pompeyo Bonilla.
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 00:00
Police and soldiers dragged out the charred remains of convicts in black body bags, hurling them onto a pile.
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 00:00
General Rene Osorio of Honduras said the semi-submersible sub had been carrying around 5 tons of cocaine and that half of the narcotics shipment was still on board.
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 00:00
Honduras' de facto government relaxed restrictions on protests and opposition media on Monday as crisis talks dragged into a third week with no agreement on toppled President Manuel Zelaya's return to power.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 00:00
It was the first reported death in political violence since Zelaya, forced into exile by a June 28 coup, slipped back into Honduras
Monday, August 10, 2009 - 00:00
'The intransigence of the secretary general in insisting he be part of the mission ... has made it impossible that the visit go ahead,' Honduras' foreign ministry said in a statement
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 00:00
Congress head Jose Alfredo Saavedra said deputies could not rule on Zelaya's return, part of a plan by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to end the Honduras crisis, because it was a constitutional question